Inland Fisheries Act 2010
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Conditions of office. |
17.— (1) The Minister may at any time remove a member of IFI from office if— | |
(a) in the Minister’s opinion, the member has become incapable through ill-health of performing the functions of the office, | ||
(b) in the Minister’s opinion, the member has committed stated misbehaviour, | ||
(c) the member’s removal from office appears to the Minister to be necessary for IFI to perform its functions in an effective manner, | ||
(d) the member has contravened a provision (unauthorised disclosure) of this Act or an applicable provision of the Ethics in Public Office Act 1995 , or | ||
(e) in performing functions under this Act, the member has not been guided by a code of conduct that has been drawn up under section 10(3) of the Standards in Public Office Act 2001 and that relates to the appointed member. | ||
(2) A member of IFI shall cease to hold office and is disqualified from holding office if the member— | ||
(a) is adjudicated bankrupt, | ||
(b) makes a composition or arrangement with creditors, | ||
(c) is convicted on indictment by a court of competent jurisdiction and sentenced to a term of imprisonment, | ||
(d) is convicted of an offence involving fraud or dishonesty, | ||
(e) is disqualified or restricted from being a director of any company, | ||
(f) does not pay any fishery rate payable by him, or | ||
(g) is convicted of an offence under the Inland Fisheries Acts or under any instrument made under those Acts. | ||
(3) A member who does not, for a consecutive period of 6 months, attend a meeting of IFI ceases at the end of that period to hold office unless the member demonstrates to the Minister’s satisfaction that the failure to attend was due to illness. | ||
(4) In this section “applicable provision of the Ethics in Public Office Act 1995 ”, in relation to an appointed member, means a provision of that Act that by virtue of a regulation under section 3 of that Act applies to that member. |