SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 2The Commissioner for Survivors of Institutional Child Abuse
3Tenure of office
1
A person holds and vacates office as the Commissioner in accordance with the terms of that person’s appointment; but that is subject to the following provisions of this paragraph.
2
An appointment as the Commissioner is for a term of five years.
3
A person who ceases to be the Commissioner on the expiry of that person’s first term of office is eligible for re-appointment.
4
But a person who has been re-appointed by virtue of sub-paragraph (3) is not eligible for appointment or re-appointment as the Commissioner at any time after the end of that person’s second term of office.
5
A person may at any time resign from office as the Commissioner by giving written notice to the Executive Office.
6
The Executive Office may remove a person from office as the Commissioner if satisfied that the person—
a
has been convicted of an offence,
b
has become bankrupt, has had a bankruptcy restrictions order, debt relief order or debt relief restrictions order made in respect of that person, or has made a voluntary arrangement,
c
has, without reasonable excuse, failed to discharge the functions of the Commissioner for a continuous period of three months, or
d
has, in the opinion of the Executive Office, become unfit or unable to exercise the functions of the Commissioner.
7
Each of the expressions used in sub-paragraph (6)(b) has the same meaning as in the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989.