London Regional Transport Act 1984 (repealed)

7 (1) If the Secretary of State is satisfied that a member of the Corporation— E+W

(a) has been absent from meetings of the Corporation for a period longer than three consecutive months without the permission of the Corporation; or

(b) has become bankrupt or made an arrangement with his creditors; or

(c) is incapacitated by physical or mental illness; or

(d) is otherwise unable or unfit to discharge the functions of a member;

he may remove that member from office.

(2) The terms of appointment of a member of the Corporation may provide for his removal from office (without assigning cause) on notice from the Secretary of State of such length as may be specified in those terms, subject (if those terms so provide) to compensation from the Corporation; and in any such case the Secretary of State may remove that member from office in accordance with those terms.

(3) Where a member whose terms of appointment provide for compensation on his removal from office in pursuance of sub-paragraph (2) above is removed from office in pursuance of that sub-paragraph, the Corporation shall pay to him compensation of such amount, and on such terms, as the Secretary of State may with the approval of the Treasury determine.

(4) The Secretary of State shall remove a member of the Corporation from office in pursuance of this paragraph by declaring his office as a member of the Corporation to be vacant and notifying that fact in such manner as the Secretary of State thinks fit; and thereupon the office shall become vacant.

Textual Amendments applied to the whole legislation

F1 Act repealed (prosp.) by 1999 c. 29, ss. 423, 425(2), Sch. 34 Pt. II (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1))