POLICE ACT (as amended) Provided that no officer who is a material witness or has a personal interest in the matter shall be appointed to such a board. (2) The senior officer appointed to a board in terms of subsection (1) shall preside over the board, and record or cause to be recorded in writing or by mechanical means all evidence which may be given before the board. (3) If a Regular Force member, other than an officer, is found after inquiry by a board to be— (a) unsuitable or inefficient in the discharge of his duties; or (b) otherwise unfit to remain in the Regular Force or to retain his rank, seniority or salary; the Commissioner may— (i) discharge the Regular Force member; or (ii) impose any one or more of the following penalties— A. reduction in rank or salary; B. loss of seniority; C. withholding of an increment of salary; (iii) reprimand the Regular Force member. (4) If the Commissioner is of the opinion that a Regular Force member who has not completed a probationary period or who has not been reengaged for continuous service is unfit to retain his rank or remain in the Police Force, he may— (a) discharge the member; or (b) order any one or more of the following— (i) reduction in rank or salary; (ii) loss of seniority; (iii) withholding of an increment of salary; (iv) a reprimand. 51 Appeal A member who is aggrieved by any order made in terms of section forty-eight or fifty may appeal to the Police Service Commission against the order within the time and in the manner prescribed, and the order shall not be executed until the decision of the Commission has been given. PART VI 53 Resignation of members of Police Service Commission (1) A member of the Police Service Commissioner may resign his office at any time by giving the President, through the Minister, such notice of his intention to resign as may be fixed in his conditions of service in terms of section fifty-four or, if no such period has been fixed, after the expiry of thirty days from the date he gives such notice or after the expiry of such other period of notice as he and the President may agree. (2) A member of the Police Service Commission shall be deemed to have resigned his office as a member and his office shall become vacant if— (a) he accepts nomination for election to, or becomes, a member of, Parliament; or (b) he accepts nomination for election as, or becomes, a member of a local authority or accepts employment as an employee of a local authority; or (c) he accepts office as a member of a statutory body or employment as an employee of a statutory body; or (d) being a member of or employed by a local authority or statutory body at the time he becomes a member of the Police Service Commission, he fails to terminate his appointment or employment as such within fourteen days of the date on which he became a member of the Commission. 54 Conditions of service of members of Police Service Commission (1) Subject to this Part, the conditions of service of members of the Police Service Commission including their remuneration, allowances and POLICE SERVICE COMMISSION September 2003 52 Term of office of members of Police Service Commission (1) Subject to this Part, a member of the Police Service Commission shall hold office for such period, not exceeding five years, as the President may fix on his appointment, and on the expiry of that period shall be eligible for re-appointment. (2) If a person is appointed to the Police Service Commission to act in the place of a member of the Commission who is unable to exercise his functions by reason of illness, absence from Zimbabwe or other cause, the period of the acting appointment shall not exceed one year. 15 [Chapter 11:10]