6If at any time the appointing authority is satisfied that any member—
(a)has failed to comply with any requirement of paragraph 11 or 12 below; or
(b)has been absent, without the permission of SQA, from all meetings of SQA and any of its committees to which he has been appointed, for a period longer than six consecutive months; or
(c)without prejudice to paragraph 5 above, has become otherwise unable or unfit to discharge his functions as a member of SQA,
the appointing authority may remove him from office; and thereupon the office shall become vacant.