S.L. 542.4 Art. 5Appointment of Agency Administrator.

(1) The Board may appoint an Agency Administrator from a list of persons after a call of applications. The Agency

Administrator 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 executive conduct of the Agency, its administration and organisation and the administrative control of its officers and employees, shall be the responsibility of the Agency Administrator who shall also have such other powers as may from time to time be delegated to him by the Agency.

(3) Subject to the provisions of subregulation (2) the Agency may exercise its functions through any of its officers or employees or through an entity or agency authorised for the purpose, or through a contractor or other person with whom an agreement for the performance of any one or more of such functions has been entered into.

(4) The Agency Administrator may 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 Agency Administrator not to attend any of the meetings or any part of a meeting.

(5) The Agency Administrator shall, upon taking office, sign an understanding outlining his duties of confidentiality and conflict of interests, which shall regulate his term.

(6) The Agency Administrator 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.