(1) A member of the Board may resign by notice in writing to the Chairperson or, where that member is the Chairperson, by notice in writing to the Minister.

(2) A resignation under subsection (1) shall take effect on -

(a) the date specified in the notice, or

(b) where no date is specified in the notice, the date on which the Chairperson or Minister, as the case may be, receives the notice.

(3) A person shall be taken to have resigned as a member of the Board where the person is absent, due to illness, from more than 50 per cent of the meetings of the Board held during a 12 month period commencing on the date of a meeting.

(4) A resignation under subsection (3) shall take effect on the next day after the end of the 12 month period concerned.

(5) A person who resigns as a member of the Board under this section also ceases on such resignation to be a member of any body to which he or she was elected, nominated or appointed by the Board.