Judicial Council Act 2019

20

Term of membership of Personal Injuries Guidelines Committee

20. (1) Subject to subsection (5) and section 21(3), each member of the Personal Injuries Guidelines Committee shall continue to be a member of the Committee for a term of 4 years from the date of his or her nomination unless he or she sooner dies or resigns.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), a member of the Personal Injuries Guidelines Committee whose term of membership expires with the passage of time shall be eligible for re-nomination to the Committee for a further term of 4 years.

(3) A member of the Personal Injuries Guidelines Committee who has served 2 terms as a member of that Committee shall not be eligible for re-nomination as a member of the Committee.

(4) A member of the Personal Injuries Guidelines Committee may resign from that Committee by notice in writing given or sent to the chairperson of the Committee and the resignation shall take effect on the day on which the chairperson receives the notice.

(5) Where a member of the Personal Injuries Guidelines Committee ceases to be a judge, or ceases to hold the judicial office which he or she held when he or she was nominated to be a member under section 19, he or she shall thereupon cease to be a member of the Committee.

(6) Subject to section 22(4) the Personal Injuries Guidelines Committee may act notwithstanding any vacancy in its membership.