44 Government Gazette 17 May 2001 No. 2532 Persons disqualified from being members of Board of Trustees 6. A person shall not be appointed as a member of the Board of Trustees if he or she (a) has been convicted of an offence of which dishonesty is an element and for which he or she has been sentenced to imprisonment for a period exceeding 12 months without the option of a fine; (b) has been removed from an office of trust on account of improper conduct; (c) is an unrehabilitated insolvent; (d) is considered a mentally ill person under the Mental Health Act, 1973 (Act No. 18 of 1973). Tenure and vacation of office of members of Board of Trustees 7. (1) A member of a Board of Trustees (a) referred to in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) of regulation 5(1) shall hold office as member of that Board for such period as he or she is the incumbent of the post referred to in the applicable paragraph; (b) referred to in paragraphs (f), (g) and (h) of regulation 5(1) shall, subject to sub regulations (3) and (4) of this regulation, hold office for such period, but not exceeding three years, as the traditional authority in question may determine at the time of designation of the member concerned. (2) A member of a Board of Trustees referred to in sub regulation (l)(b) whose period of office has expired shall be eligible for re-designation. (3) A traditional authority may, upon reasonable grounds and after having given the member concerned an opportunity to be heard, remove a member of a Board of Trustees referred to in sub regulation (l)(b) at any time before the expiration of such member's period of office. (4) A member of a Board of Trustees shall vacate his or her office, if he or she (a) ceases to hold the office by virtue of which he or she became a member or is no longer a member of the body which designated him or her to be a member; (b) has been absent from more than three consecutive meetings of that Board of Trustees without the leave of that Board; or page 44