Timber Promotion Act 1970

Subject to this section a member of the Board, unless he sooner resigns or is removed from office or otherwise ceases to hold office, continues in office for a period of three years from the date on which he was last appointed a member of the Board.

Where a member of the Board dies or ceases to hold office otherwise than by reason of the effluxion of time, the member appointed to fill the vacancy ceases to hold office at the expiration of the unexpired term of office of the member in whose place he is appointed.

The Minister may remove from office any member of the Board who, he is satisfied – has become permanently incapable of carrying out the duties of his office; has misconducted himself in the performance of the duties of his office; has, without leave of the Board, been absent from three or more consecutive meetings of the Board; has applied to take, or takes, advantage of any law relating to bankruptcy, or has compounded, or entered into an arrangement, with his creditors; or has been convicted (whether in this State or elsewhere) of an offence of such nature that, in the opinion of the Minister, renders it improper for him to continue to hold office as a member of the Board.

Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of paragraph (b) of subsection (3) of this section, a member of the Board shall be deemed to have misconducted himself in the performance of the duties of his office if – he votes on any matter before the Board in which he has a direct pecuniary interest; or he takes part in, or is present at, the discussion of any such matter before the Board without disclosing his pecuniary interest to the members of the Board present.

In the case of a member of the Board who has a spouse or who is in a personal relationship, within the meaning of the Relationships Act 2003, a pecuniary interest of the spouse or the other party to the personal relationship is taken for the purposes of this section to be a pecuniary interest of the member if the interest is known to that member.

The Minister may, at the request of the body referred to in subsection (3) of section four, remove from office a member of the Board appointed under that subsection if he is satisfied that it is desirable that he should be so removed.

The Minister may, at the request of the Forestry corporation, remove from office any member of the Board appointed under subsection (5) of section four; and any employee of the Forestry corporation holding office as a member of the Board ceases to hold office as a member of the Board on his ceasing to be an employee of the Forestry corporation.

A member of the Board shall not be removed from office otherwise than under this section.

Where the Board has given permission for a member thereof to be absent from the meetings of the Board for a period of at least three months the Minister may appoint a person to act as a member of the Board in the place of that member; and the person so appointed shall, during the period for which that member is so given permission to be absent, act as a member of the Board in his place.