Resignation and removal of members
5.—(1) A member who desires to reesign his membership shall give written intimation of his, resignation to the Secretary of State.
(2) If a member has not attended any meeting of the Board or of any committee or subcommittee of the Board througout a period of six consecutive months, the Secretary of State shall, unless satisfied that his absence was due to illness or other reasonable cause, declare that his seat on the Board has become vacant and that person shall forthwith cease to be a member.
(3) Where a member who was appointed for the purposes of paragraph 2A of Schedule 1 to the Act ceases to hold the post in a university with a medical or dental school, which he held at the time of his appointment for those purposes, the Secretary of State may terminite his appointment as a member.
(4) A member of a Board being eithermdash;
(a)a person who holds any paid appointment or office or other place of profit under a Board or under the Agency and who is dismissed, removed or resigns from such appointment, office, or other place of profit; or—
(b)a person whose name is included in any list prepared under Part II of the Act, and whose name is withdrawn from the list on his own application,
shall, if the Secretary of State so directs, forthwith cease to be a member.