Spatial Data Infrastructure Act, 2003 (Act No. 54 of 2003)8. Disqualifications as member of Committee |
| (a) | is an unrehabilitated insolvent; |
| (b) | is mentally ill; |
| (c) | has been convicted, whether in the Republic or elsewhere, of an offence involving dishonesty or an offence for which he or she was sentenced to imprisonment without the option of a fine, unless the person has received a grant of amnesty or a free pardon before the date of his or her appointment; |
| (d) | has been removed from an office of trust on account of improper conduct; |
| (e) | has had his or her name removed from any professional register on account of misconduct and has not been reinstated; |
| (f) | is a political representative at the national, provincial or municipal sphere of government; |
| (g) | has been determined by a court, tribunal or forum as contemplated by the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act, 2000 (Act No. 4 of 2000), to have contravened section 7 or any other provision of that Act; or |
| (h) | is not a fit and proper person to be so appointed. |
| (2) | A member of the Committee must vacate his or her office, if he or she— |
| (a) | becomes disqualified in terms of subsection (1) from being appointed as a member of the Committee; |
| (b) | has, without the leave of the Committee, been absent from two consecutive meetings of the Committee or a subcommittee of which he or she is a member; |
| (c) | resigns by written notice addressed to the Minister; |
| (d) | has been recalled by, or ceases to be associated with, the body that he or she represented at the time of his or her appointment to the Committee or, in the case of an official in the service of the State, ceases to be such an official; |
| (e) | is incapable of performing his or her duties due to ill health; or |
| (f) | has engaged in any activity that has brought or may bring the Committee into disrepute. |