7Terms of office of members

7 Terms of office of members

7 Terms of office of members

(1) A member holds office for the period, not more than 3 years, specified in the member’s instrument of appointment.

(2) A person who holds or has held office as a member is eligible for reappointment or appointment to a further term—

(a) unless the person has held office for more than 6 years, consecutively or not, and

(b) if otherwise qualified.

(3) 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—

(a) 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

(b) for the balance of the term of office of the person’s predecessor.