Transport Act 1962

Tenure of office

4 (1) The president shall hold office during good behaviour, but shall vacate office at the end of the completed year of service in the course of which he attains the age of seventy-two years:

Provided that—

(a) where the Lord Chancellor and the Minister concur in considering it desirable in the public interest to retain the president in his office after he attains that age, they may, with the approval of the Treasury, authorise his continuance in office up to such greater age not exceeding seventy-five years as they think fit; and

(b) the power of Her Majesty to remove the president from his office on account of misbehaviour shall be exercisable on the joint recommendation of the two persons aforesaid ; and Her Majesty, on a like recommendation, shall have power to remove him from his office on account of inability to perform the duties thereof.

(2) The other members of the tribunal shall hold office for such term not exceeding seven years from the date of their appointment as may be determined at the time of appointment and then retire, but a retiring member shall be eligible for re-appointment.

(3) A person shall not be appointed under the last foregoing sub-paragraph for a term extending beyond the end of the completed year of service in the course of which he attains the age of seventy years, except that, where the Lord Chancellor and the Minister concur in considering it to be desirable in the public interest that a person should be appointed for a term extending beyond that date, that person may, with the approval of the Treasury, be appointed for such term not extending beyond the date on which he attains the age of seventy-five years, as the Lord Chancellor and the Minister think fit.