21 Conditions of service of members of Board 3.(1) Subject to this Schedule, the term of office of a member of the Board shall be such period, not exceeding three years, as the Minister may fix on his appointment. (2) On the expiry of a member’s term of office, he or she shall be eligible for reappointment. (3) Subject to this Schedule, the conditions of service of a members, including their salaries, allowances and pension benefits, shall be fixed by the Minister from time to time: Provided that members of hospital management boards shall be entitled to sitting allowances only. (4) When fixing a member’s conditions of service in terms of subparagraph (3), the Minister may direct that any enactment relating to the conditions of service of members of the Public Service or the Health Service shall apply to the member, subject to such modifications, exceptions or conditions as the Minister may specify, and thereupon the enactment concerned shall so apply to the member concerned. (5) Notwithstanding any other provision of this paragraph, the salary or allowance payable to a member of the Board shall not be reduced during his or her tenure of office. Vacation of office by members of Board 4.(1) A member may resign his or her office at any time by giving the Minister such notice of his or her intention to resign as may be fixed in the member’s conditions of service in terms of paragraph 3 or, if no such period has been fixed, after the expiry of thirty days from the date he or she gives such notice or after the expiry of such other period of notice as the member and the Minister may agree. (2) A member of the Board shall be deemed to have resigned his or her office and the member’s office shall become vacant— (a) if he or she becomes disqualified for appointment to the Board concerned in terms of paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) of subparagraph (1) of paragraph 2; or (b) on the date he or she begins to serve a sentence of imprisonment, whether or not any portion was suspended, imposed without the option of a fine⎯ (i) in Zimbabwe, in respect of an offence; or (ii) outside Zimbabwe, in respect of conduct which, if committed in Zimbabwe, would have constituted an offence. Dismissal of members 5.(1) Subject to subparagraph (2), if the Minister is satisfied on reasonable grounds that— (a) the Board has contravened this Act or any other law and has failed to rectify the contravention within a specified period after being requested to do so by the Minister; or (b) the Board has failed to comply with any direction in terms of section 8; or (c) whether through disagreements among its members or otherwise, the Board is unable to carry out its function in terms of this Act;