Non-executive members: tenure
5(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.