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The Censorship of Publications Appeal Board.
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3.—(1) There shall be a Censorship of Publications Appeal Board consisting of five members, namely:—
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(a) a chairman who shall be a judge of the Supreme Court, High Court or Circuit Court or a practising barrister or practising solicitor of not less than seven years' standing, and
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(b) four ordinary members.
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(2) The Minister shall, as soon as may be after the passing of this Act and thereafter as occasion requires, appoint the chairman and persons to be ordinary members of the Appeal Board.
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(3) Subject to subsection (4) of this section, every member of the Appeal Board shall, unless he sooner dies, resigns or is removed from office, hold office for the term of three years reckoned, in the case of the first members, from the operative date and, in the case of every subsequent member, from the expiration of the term of office of his predecessor.
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(4) A member of the Appeal Board appointed to fill a vacancy arising otherwise than by effluxion of time shall hold office for the residue of the term for which the member, the termination of whose office occasioned the vacancy, would have held office if such vacancy had not occurred.
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(5) A member of the Appeal Board may at any time resign his office by letter addressed to the Minister and such resignation shall take effect on the date on which the Minister receives the letter.
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(6) The Minister may remove from office any member of the Appeal Board who has been absent (otherwise than by reason of his illness) from four consecutive meetings of the Appeal Board or who, in the opinion of the Minister, becomes unfit to be a member of the Appeal Board.
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(7) A member of the Appeal Board shall on the cesser of his membership by effluxion of time be eligible for reappointment.
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(8) The Appeal Board may act for all purposes notwithstanding the existence of one vacancy in their membership.
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