Parliamentary and Health Service Commissioners Act 1987

2 Removal of a Commissioner on grounds of incapacity for medical reasons U.K.

(1) [F1 Section 1 of the 1967 Act (which deals with the appointment and tenure of office by the Parliamentary Commissioner)] shall be amended as follows—

(a) in subsection (2), for the words “subsection (3) there shall be substituted the words “subsections (3) and (3A); and

(b) after subsection (3), there shall be inserted the following subsection—

“(3A) Her Majesty may declare the office of Commissioner to have been vacated if satisfied that the person appointed to be the Commissioner is incapable for medical reasons—

(a) of performing the duties of his office; and

(b) of requesting to be relieved of it.”

F2 (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 2(1) substituted (5.2.1994) by 1993 c. 46, ss. 20(1), 22(4), Sch. 2 para.8 (with s. 3(4)).

F2 S. 2(2) repealed (5.2.1994) by 1993 c. 46, ss. 20(2), 22(4), Sch.3 (with s. 3(4)).