SCHEDULE 13The Health Services Safety Investigations Body
PART 1Constitution
Non-executive members: tenure
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(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.