7Vacation of office

7 Vacation of office

7 Vacation of office

(1) A member of the Trust shall be deemed to have vacated his office if he:

(a) dies,

(b) resigns his office by notice in writing given to the Trust,

(c) becomes bankrupt, applies to take the benefit of any law for the relief of bankrupt or insolvent debtors, compounds with his creditors or makes an assignment of his remuneration for their benefit,

(d) becomes a temporary patient, a continued treatment patient, a protected person or an incapable person, within the meaning of the Mental Health Act 1958 or a person under detention under Part 7 of that Act,

(e) ceases to be a member of the Lutheran Church of Australia,

(f) being a member of the Church Council and as such appointed by the Church Council to be a member of the Trust, ceases to be a member of the Church Council, or

(g) is removed from his office under subsection (2).

(2) The Church Council shall be deemed to have removed a member of the Trust from office if a duly convened meeting of the Church Council at which not less than 75 per cent of the members of the Church Council is present resolves to remove that member by not less than a two-thirds majority.