Part 4: The Health Services Safety Investigations Body Introductory Schedule 13: The Health Services Safety Investigations Body Non-executive members: suspension from office
Paragraph 6 of the Schedule applies where a non-executive member is suspended from office under paragraph 5(4). The Secretary of State must provide the individual with notice of the suspension. The initial period of suspension must not exceed six months, and the Secretary of State may review the suspension at any time. In addition, the Secretary of State must review the suspension if requested to by the person in writing. However, there is no requirement to review the suspension before three months have passed following the start of the suspension.
	After a review during a period of suspension, the Secretary of State may confirm the suspension, revoke the suspension, or suspend the person for another period of not more than six months. This period would begin once the current period of suspension expires.
	The Secretary of State must revoke the suspension if the Secretary of State decides that there are no grounds to remove the person from office under paragraph 5(3) or decides that there are grounds to remove the person from office, but does not remove the person from office under that provision.
	Paragraph 7 provides that if the chair is suspended from office under paragraph 5(4), the Secretary of State may appoint a non-executive member as interim chair to exercise the chair’s functions. This appointment is for a term not exceeding the shorter of the remainder of the interim chair’s term as a non-executive member, the period ending with the appointment of a new chair, or the period ending with the revocation or expiry of the existing chair’s suspension.
	If a person’s initial term as interim chair ends as a result of the expiry of their term as a non-executive member and they are to be re-appointed as a non-executive member, they may be re-appointed as interim chair for a further term in accordance with paragraph 7(2). The further term must begin at the end of their initial term as interim chair.