Malaysia legislation
Section 3
Section 3
(2)
The Board shall consist of the following members who shall be appointed by the Minister:
(a)
a Chairman;
(b)
a representative of the Ministry responsible for the pineapple industry;
(c)
a representative of the Ministry of Trade and Industry;
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(d)
a representative of the Treasury;
(e)
a representative of such other Ministry as the Minister may determine after consulting the Minister of that
Ministry;
(f)
two persons to represent the interests of registered canners nominated by the representative association of the canning sector of the pineapple industry;
(g)
two persons to represent the interests of growers; and
(h)
the State Director of Agriculture, Johore.
(3)
The Minister may, in respect of each member of the Board other than the Chairman, appoint an alternate member who may attend any meeting of the Board which the member is, for any reason, unable to attend.
(b)
When attending a meeting of the Board, an alternate member shall, for all purposes, be deemed to be a member of the
Board.
(4)
(Deleted by Act A693).
(5)
Every member of the Board, other than the person appointed under paragraph (2)(h), shall, unless his appointment is sooner revoked or he sooner resigns, hold office for such period as the
Minister may specify in his letter of appointment or, if no such period is specified, for a period of two years from the date of his appointment, and shall be eligible for reappointment.
(5A)
Every alternate member shall, unless he sooner resigns or his appointment is sooner revoked, cease to be an alternate member when the member in respect of whom he is an alternate member ceases to be a member of the Board.
(6)
Any member of the Board who without reasonable cause absents himself from two consecutive ordinary or special meetings of
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the Board and any member who has been found or declared to be of unsound mind or has become bankrupt or made an arrangement with his creditors or has been sentenced to imprisonment shall be deemed to have vacated his office and his appointors shall be informed accordingly.
(7)
If any vacancy occurs by death, resignation, absence, insanity, bankruptcy, imprisonment or otherwise the appointor may appoint a person to fill any such vacancy and any person so appointed shall hold office so long only as the person in whose place he is appointed would have held office.
(8)
The appointment of every member and alternate member of the Board shall be published in the Gazette.
Chairman