Textual Amendments
F1Sch. A1 inserted (1.10.2012 for specified purposes) by Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), ss. 9(2), 306(4), Sch. 1 (with Sch. 6 para. 2); S.I. 2012/1831, art. 2(2) (with art. 3(3))
4(1)A person holds and vacates office as a non-executive member of the Board in accordance with that person’s terms of appointment.
(2)A person may at any time resign from office as a non-executive member by giving notice to the Secretary of State.
(3)The Secretary of State may at any time remove a person from office as a non-executive member on any of the following grounds—
(a)incapacity,
(b)misbehaviour, or
(c)failure to carry out his or her duties as a non-executive member.
(4)The Secretary of State may suspend a person from office as a non-executive member if it appears to the Secretary of State that there are or may be grounds to remove that person from office under sub-paragraph (3).
(5)A person may not be appointed as a non-executive member for a period of more than four years.
(6)A person who ceases to be a non-executive member is eligible for re-appointment.]