Schedule 1: The Office for Environmental Protection Terms of membership
Paragraph 5 sets out the basis on which members (both non-executive and executive) can be appointed to, and removed from, the OEP. Appointments will be made in accordance with the Governance Code for Public Appointments.
	Sub-paragraph (2) specifies that civil servants may not be appointed as members of the OEP, as a non-Crown entity.
	Sub-paragraph (3) requires that non-executive members be appointed for a fixed term of no more than five years.
	Sub-paragraph (4) requires the Secretary of State to have regard to the desirability of securing that the appointments of non-executive members expire at different times in order to ensure strategic continuity and to spread the administrative workload of appointing and inducting new board members.
	Sub-paragraph (5) provides that non-executive members may be re-appointed once they reach the end of their term of office.
	Sub-paragraph (6) explains the terms for termination of a non-executive member’s appointment. Sub-paragraph (6)(c) explains the conditions under which the Secretary of State may remove a non-executive member from office.