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Termination of appointment

"74. (1) The Minister may terminate the appointment of the Presiding Member or a nominated member of a Selection Committee:

  (a) for misbehaviour or physical or mental incapacity; or

  (b) if the Presiding Member or nominated member:

    (i)   becomes bankrupt; or

         (ii) applies to take the benefit of a law for the relief of bankrupt or insolvent debtors; or

         (iii) compounds with his or her creditors; or

         (iv) makes an assignment of his or her remuneration for the benefit of such creditors; or

     (c) if the Presiding Member or nominated member, without reasonable excuse, contravenes section 73.

"(2) The Minister may terminate the appointment of the Presiding Member if the Presiding Member is absent, except with the Minister's leave, from 3 consecutive meetings of a Selection Committee.

"(3) The Minister may terminate the appointment of a nominated member of a Selection Committee if the member is absent, except with the Presiding Member's leave, from 3 consecutive meetings of the Selection Committee.".

Employees

  19. Section 77 of the Principal Act is amended:

     (a) by omitting subsections (1) and (2) and substituting the following subsection:

     "(1) The Presiding Member may, on behalf of a Selection Committee, employ persons to perform administrative and clerical services in connection with the performance of the Selection Committee's function and the exercise of its powers.";

  (b) by omitting subsection (4).

Consultants

20. Section 78 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsection:

"(1) The Presiding Member may, on behalf of a Selection Committee, engage persons having suitable qualifications and experience as consultants to the Selection Committee to assist it in performing its function.".

21. Section 79 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section is substituted:

Annual reports

"79. (1) The Presiding Member must, as soon as practicable after 30 June in each year, prepare and give to the Minister a report on the operations, during the immediately preceding financial year, of Selection Committees (if any) established by the Presiding Member or any other Presiding Member.

"(2) Where the first appointment of a Presiding Member does not begin on 1 July, subsection (1) has effect in relation to the period beginning on the day the appointment begins and ending on the next 30 June as if:

     (a) if the period is less than 3 months—the period were included in the next financial year; or

  (b) in any other case—the period were a financial year.

"(3) A report for a financial year may, subject to agreement between the Presiding Member and the Chairperson of the Corporation, be included, as a discrete part, in the annual report of the Corporation for that financial year.

"(4) If