SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 13The Health Services Safety Investigations Body

PART 1Constitution

I1I25Non-executive members: tenure

1

A person holds and vacates office as a non-executive member of the HSSIB in accordance with that person’s terms of appointment (subject to the following provisions of this paragraph).

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 the person’s 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 the person from office under sub-paragraph (3).

5

A person may be appointed as a non-executive member for an initial term of up to three years.

6

A person who has been appointed as a non-executive member for an initial term may be re-appointed, but only for one further term of up to three years.

7

The further term must begin at the end of the initial term.