S.L. 542.4 Art. 6Appointmentofthe Artistic Director

(1) The Board shall appoint an Artistic Director from a list of persons after a call for applications. The Artistic Director shall hold office for a period of three years and the individual occupying the role may be re-appointed for one further consecutive term. If the individual is so re-appointed for one further consecutive term, the individual occupying the role may not be re-appointed for a further consecutive term until the lapse of six consecutive years, in which the present mechanism shall start to run anew.

(2) The artistic direction of the Agency together with the direction of employees engaged in both the artistic and the technical departments shall be the responsibility of the Artistic Director who shall also have such other powers as may from time to time be delegated to him by the Agency.

(3) The Artistic Director shall attend the meetings of the Board but shall not have a vote at such meetings:

Provided that the agency may, if it deems so fit, require the Artistic Director not to attend any of the meetings or any part of a meeting.

(4) The Artistic Director shall, upon taking office, sign an understanding outlining his duties of confidentiality and conflict of interests, which shall regulate his term.

(5) The Artistic Director may be relieved from office by the Board, upon consultation with the Minister, prior to the expiry of his term of office where, in the opinion of the Board, he has been guilty of misconduct or on ground of inability to continue to perform the functions of office, due to infirmity of mind or of body, of misbehaviour, or any other reasonable cause.