Singapore legislation
Clause 19
Clause 19
Appointment of Board
(1)
There shall be a Board of Trustees consisting of not less than 5 and not more than 15 persons, all of whom shall be appointed by the Minister.
(2)
The trustees shall be appointed for such period, not exceeding 3 years, as the Minister may specify in the instrument of appointment, and shall be eligible for re-appointment.
(3)
A trustee shall hold office on such terms and conditions as are determined by the Minister.
(4)
If at any time it appears to the Minister that removal from office of any of the trustees is necessary in the interests of the effective and economical performance of the functions of the Board under this Act, the Minister may remove from office so many of those trustees as he considers necessary in those interests.
(5)
All trustees shall be deemed to be public servants within the meaning of the Penal Code (Cap. 224).
(6)
All trustees shall be deemed to be public officers for the purposes of the Financial Procedure Act (Cap. 109) and section 20 of that Act shall apply to such persons notwithstanding that they are not or were not in the employment of the Government.