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LOCAL GOVERNMENT GRANTS ACT 1978 - SECT 6

6 .         Conditions of membership

        (1)         Subject to this Act, each member shall hold office for such period, not exceeding 5 years, as is specified in the instrument of his appointment, but is eligible for re-appointment.

        (2)         The office of a member shall become vacant if —

            (a)         his term of office expires; or

            (b)         he becomes permanently incapable of performing his duties as a member; or

            (c)         he resigns his office by written notice addressed to the Minister; or

            (d)         he is, according to the Interpretation Act 1984 section 13D, a bankrupt or a person whose affairs are under insolvency laws; or

            (e)         he is removed from office by the Governor for any cause that appears to the Governor to be sufficient; or

            (f)         in the case of a member holding the office referred to in section 5(1)(b), he ceases to be an officer of the Department.

        (3)         Acceptance of or acting in the office of a member by any person does not of itself render the provisions of Part 3 of the Public Sector Management Act 1994 or any other Act applying to persons as officers of the Public Service of the State, applicable to that person, or affect or prejudice the application to him of those provisions if they applied to him at the time of the acceptance of or acting in that office.

        (4)         Each member shall in the exercise of his powers under this Act have regard to the general interests of local government in the State.

        [Section 6 amended: No. 56 of 1985 s. 5; No. 32 of 1994 s. 3(2); No. 28 of 2006 s. 368; No. 18 of 2009 s. 53.]



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