Terms of office of members
7 Terms of office of members
A member holds office for the period, not more than 3 years, specified in the member’s instrument of appointment.
A person who holds or has held office as a member is eligible for reappointment or appointment to a further term—
unless the person has held office for more than 6 years, consecutively or not, and
if otherwise qualified.
For subsection (2)(a), an appointment does not constitute, and is taken never to have constituted, an appointment to a term of office if the person is appointed—
under section 9 to fill the office of a member that has become vacant other than by the expiration of the member’s term of office, and
for the balance of the term of office of the person’s predecessor.
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