Schedule 1 The Health Insurance Authority
1. The Authority shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and an official seal and power to sue and be sued in its corporate name and, with the consent of the Minister, to acquire, hold and dispose of land or an interest in land or to acquire, hold and dispose of any other property.
2. The Authority shall consist of 7 members, who shall be appointed to be members of the Authority by the Minister and of whom one shall be the chairman of the Authority and the others shall be ordinary members thereof.
(1) The Minister may as occasion requires appoint one of the members of the Authority to be the chairman of the Authority.
(2) Where the chairman of the Authority ceases during his or her term of office as chairman to be a member of the Authority, he or she shall also then cease to be chairman of the Authority.
4. The chairman of the Authority may at any time resign his or her office by letter addressed to the Minister.