Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), the governing body may by resolution remove the chair from office, unless he or she has been nominated by the Welsh Ministers pursuant to section 18 of the 1998 Act.

Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), the governing body may by resolution remove the vice-chair from office.

A resolution to remove the chair or vice-chair from office does not have effect unless the matter is specified as an item of business on the agenda for the meeting, of which notice has been given in accordance with regulation 54(7).

Before the governing body resolve to remove the chair or the vice-chair from office, the governor proposing his or her removal must at that meeting state his or her 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.