The governing body may by resolution remove the chair from office, unless the chair has been nominated by the Secretary of State pursuant to section 67 of the EIA 2006.

The governing body may by resolution remove the vice-chair from office.

A resolution to remove the chair or vice-chair from office will not have effect unless the matter is specified as an item of business on the agenda for the meeting.

Before the governing body resolve to remove the chair or vice-chair from office, the governor proposing the chair or the vice-chair’s removal must at that meeting state their reasons for doing so and the chair or vice-chair, as the case may be, must be given an opportunity to make a statement in response, before withdrawing from the meeting.