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Report Stage Proceedings: 13th March 2007
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Statistics and Registration Service Bill, continued

(a)
if he ceases to be a Member of the House of Commons or the House

of Lords;

(b)
if another person is appointed in his place.

      (2)
Subject to sub-paragraph (1) above, a member of the Commission shall hold

office for the duration of the Parliament in which he is nominated or appointed

and for a further period provided by paragraph 2 of this Schedule.

      (3)
A member of the Commission may resign at any time by notice to the

Commission.

      (4)
Past service is no bar to nomination or appointment as a member of the

Commission.

2    (1)
Subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, on a dissolution of Parliament, the

members of the Commission shall continue in office until members are

nominated or appointed in their place.

      (2)
Where at any time after Parliament has been dissolved, it appears that a

member of the Commission who is not a Member of the House of Lords—

(a)
has not been validly nominated as a candidate in the ensuing general

election; or

(b)
although so nominated, has not been elected as a Member of

Parliament at that election


that member shall resign from the Commission forthwith; but nothing in sub-

paragraph (1) above or this sub-paragraph shall be taken as preventing any

such member from resigning otherwise than in pursuance of this sub-

paragraph.

Chairman

3
The Commission shall elect a chairman from amongst its members (in this Act

referred to as “the Chairman of the Committee”).

Proceedings and business

4    (1)
The validity of any proceedings of the Commission shall not be affected by any

vacancy among the members of the Committee or by any defect in the

appointment or nomination of any member.

      (2)
The Commission may determine its own procedures.

      (3)
The Commission may appoint one of its members to act as chairman at any

meeting of the Commission in the absence of the elected chairman of the

Commission.’.

Bill read the third time, and passed.