S.L. 188.6 Art. 12Evaluation Board. 

(1) The Evaluation Board shall evaluate applications filed in terms of these regulations.

(2) The composition of the Evaluation Board shall vary in accordance with the nature of the application to be evaluated and shall comprise:

(a) a Chairperson to be appointed by the Minister after consultation with the Cabinet of Ministers, who shall be a person who has practiced the profession of advocate for at least seven

(7) years; and

(b) two (2) members to be selected by the Chairperson from amongst the members of three (3) panels to be appointed by the Minister, which panels shall include persons having knowledge of sport, culture, the arts, science, research, philanthropy, technology and entrepreneurship and any other area as may be established from time to time.

(3) The Chairperson and the appointed panel members of the Evaluation Board shall hold office for a term of three (3) years and under such conditions as may be established in their letter of appointment, and shall, on the expiration of the term of their office, be eligible to be reappointed.

(4) The Chairperson and the appointed panel members of the Evaluation Board shall be adequately remunerated, as determined by the Minister.

(5) The Chairperson and the panel members of the Evaluation Board shall, before commencing to execute their duties, take an oath in the form established in the Schedule. Such oath shall be taken before, and shall be deposited with, the State Advocate.

(6) When any vacancy in the Evaluation Board occurs, the Minister shall, as soon as practicable, appoint another person to fill the vacancy.

*Vide regulation 25 of Legal Notice 159 of 2025. THE BASIS OF MERIT

(7) A member of the Evaluation Board may be removed from office by the Minister upon proof of inability to discharge the functions of his office, whether arising from infirmity of mind or body or any other cause, or for misbehaviour.

(8) The Chairperson and any member of the Evaluation Board may abstain from sitting or may be challenged for any of the causes mentioned in article 734 of the Code of Organization and Civil Procedure.

(9) Save as otherwise expressly provided by these regulations, the Evaluation Board may make its own rules and otherwise regulate its own procedure.

(10) The Minister shall appoint a Secretary to the Evaluation Board and such other officers as may be necessary from time to time and shall determine their duties.

(11) The Evaluation Board shall have the power to request such technical advice as it may deem necessary for the proper performance of its functions.

(12) Any notice issued by the Board shall be signed by the Chairperson and counter-signed by the Secretary.

(13) The findings of the Evaluation Board shall be signed by the Chairperson and by the Secretary and forwarded to the Minister for his consideration, through the Agency.

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