Gambling Regulation Act 2024
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Recommendation for appointment of members of Authority | ||
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16. (1) The Minister shall, from time to time as required, request the Public Appointments Service to undertake a selection process for the purpose of identifying and recommending to the Minister persons who are suitable for appointment under section 14 (1) as members of the Authority. | ||
(2) Upon receipt of a request under subsection (1), the Public Appointments Service shall undertake a selection process and, subject to subsection (3), recommend to the Minister, from among persons who participated in the process, those persons whom it is satisfied are suitable for appointment as members of the Authority. | ||
(3) The Minister shall agree with the Public Appointments Service the selection criteria and procedures that are to apply to the selection process under this section having regard to— | ||
(a) the desirability that the members of the Authority will, among them, possess knowledge of, and experience, qualifications, training or expertise in, the matters specified in subsection (4), | ||
(b) the need, in so far as possible, to achieve the objective that no fewer than 3 members of the Authority are women and no fewer than 3 members are men, and | ||
(c) the need to ensure that a person recommended to the Minister under subsection (2) is a fit and proper person to be a member of the Authority. | ||
(4) The matters referred to in subsection (3)(a) are matters connected with— | ||
(a) legal or compliance functions in a regulated profession or industry, | ||
(b) gambling activities, | ||
(c) consumer affairs, | ||
(d) the pathology and treatment of addiction, with particular reference to gambling addiction, | ||
(e) information and communications technology, and | ||
(f) financial services, including audit and forensic accounting practice. | ||
(5) The Public Appointments Service shall provide the Minister with particulars of the relevant knowledge, experience, qualifications, training or expertise of each person whom it recommends under subsection (2). | ||
(6) The Minister may, prior to the establishment day, designate persons, the subject of a recommendation under subsection (2), to be the first members of the Authority and from among those persons so designated, one of their number to be the first chairperson. | ||
(7) If, immediately before the establishment day, a person stands designated under subsection (6), the person shall, on that day, stand appointed as a member of the Authority or as both such member and the chairperson, as the case may be. |