LEGAL CONTRIBUTION TRUST ACT 1967 - SECT 6

This legislation has been repealed.

LEGAL CONTRIBUTION TRUST ACT 1967 - SECT 6

6 .         Constitution of Trust

        (1)         The Trust shall consist of 3 trustees appointed by the Governor of whom —

            (a)         one shall be a practitioner nominated in writing by the Society;

            (b)         one shall be a practitioner nominated in writing by the Board; and

            (c)         one shall be a person, not being a practitioner, nominated in writing by the Minister.

        (2)         A trustee shall hold office during the pleasure of the person by whom or the body by which he was nominated and the Governor may, at the requirement of the nominator of a trustee, remove that trustee from office and appoint a duly nominated person to hold office in his stead.

        (3)         A vacancy occurs in the office of trustee where a trustee dies, resigns his office by writing under his hand to his nominator and to the Trust or is removed from office pursuant to subsection (2).

        (4)         The Minister shall, as the occasion requires, by notice in writing to the secretary of the Society or of the Board, require the nomination of a practitioner for the purposes of this section, within such period, being not less than one month, as may be stipulated in the notice and if, upon the expiration of the period so stipulated or any extension of that period that the Minister may grant, he has not received the required nomination, the Minister shall nominate such person as, having regard to the body the nominee is to represent, he thinks fit.

        (5)         The provisions of subsection (2) apply to a trustee nominated by the Minister pursuant to subsection (4), as though he had been nominated by the body that he is appointed to represent on the Trust.

        (6)         The trustee nominated by the Society shall be Chairman of the Trust, but, during any period in which no such trustee holds office, the Minister shall appoint a trustee to act as Chairman.

        (7)         Persons nominated in accordance with the provisions of subsection (1) may be appointed by the Governor as deputies, to act in the respective offices of trustee, in the absence of the occupants of those offices.