# The Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority Scheme 1991 Confirmation Order 1991, Paragraph 8: Constitution of the Authority


(1) For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that, notwithstanding section 2(2) of the 1991 Act and paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 1 to that Act, the provisions of sections 5 and 8 of, and Schedule 3 to, the Tees and Hartlepools Port Authority Act 1966 and of the Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority (Constitution) Revision Order 1978 (which make provision as respects the constitution of the Authority) shall have no effect in relation to the Successor Company.
(2) For the purposes of the provisions of that Order, a full-time employee of the Successor Company shall, at any time after the transfer date, be taken to be a full-time officer of the Authority; and, accordingly, any person who, immediately before the transfer date, is a full-time officer of the Authority and (in that capacity) a member of the Authority and who on that date becomes a full-time employee of the Successor Company shall not thereby cease to be a member of the Authority.
(3) On or at any time after the transfer date the Secretary of State may, if he thinks fit, appoint one or more persons to be members of the Authority in addition to the members appointed in pursuance of the Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority (Constitution) Revision Order 1978:
Provided that the number of persons appointed in pursuance of this sub-paragraph and in office for the time being shall not be more than four.
(4) A person appointed in pursuance of sub-paragraph (3) above shall (if he would not otherwise be) be deemed for the purposes of section 8(2) and (3) of the Tees and Hartlepools Port Authority Act 1966 to be an appointed member.
(5) A person appointed in pursuance of sub-paragraph (3) above shall come into office on such date and, subject to the provisions of section 8(2) and (3) of, and paragraph 6 of Schedule 3 to, the Tees and Hartlepools Port Authority Act 1966, shall continue in office for such period as the Secretary of State may specify when he makes the appointment.
(6) For the purposes of paragraphs (7) and (11) of article 3 of the Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority (Constitution) Revision Order 1978, a member appointed in pursuance of this paragraph shall be deemed to have been appointed under paragraph (1)(a) of that article.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2908/schedule/paragraph/8 (the official version)
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