Section 5, The Ports (Amendment) Act, 1970

(1) The Authority shall consist of— (a) a Chairman; (b) three elected members; (c) four appointed members; (d) the Financial Secretary or his representative; (e) the Establishment Secretary or his representative; (f) the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transport and Communications or his representative; (g) the Comptroller of Customs or his representative. [Margin: Repealed by sec. 4 of Act 10/76] (2) The Chairman and the appointed members shall be citizens of Sierra Leone appointed by the Minister and shall hold office subject to such conditions as the Minister may determine: Provided that one of such appointed members shall be appointed from among persons appearing to the Minister, after considering any representations made by labour organizations concerned, to be qualified as having experience of, and to have shown capacity in, the organization of workers. (3) Where the Chairman or any appointed member is for good reason temporarily unable to perform his functions and until such time as the Minister appoints some other person to act for the Chairman or such member, the Authority may appoint a person so to act. (4) (a) Of the elected members of the Authority— (i) one shall be elected from among persons representing importers of goods into and exporters of goods from Sierra Leone; (ii) two shall be elected from among persons representing ship owning companies operating shipping agencies in Sierra Leone. (b) The elected members of the Authority shall be elected by the Sierra Leone Chamber of Commerce, which may, subject to the provisions of this subsection, regulate its own procedure for all things necessary, preliminary or incidental to the election of such elected members. (c) Such elected members shall hold office for a period of one year and shall then retire but shall be eligible for re-election. No. 17 Ports (Amendment) 1970 3 (d) Whenever a vacancy occurs among the elected members of the Authority, the Sierra Leone Chamber of Commerce may conduct an election to fill such vacancy in accordance with the provisions of this subsection.". Passed in the House of Representatives this 12th day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventy. J. W. E. DAVIES, Clerk of the House of Representatives. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the House of Representatives and found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill. J. W. E. DAVIES, Clerk of the House of Representatives.