Cap.I0:31 PuBuc li"'TITIES CoRPORA:TE GovF:R."iANCE (ii) No. 4/2018 no Permanent Secretmy of a line or other Ministry shall be appointed to or hold office as a member of any such board. (6) Members of boards of public entities shall be appointed for their knowledge of or cxpetience in administration, management or any other field which is relevant to the operation and management of the public entities concerned. (7) A line Minister shall ensure that, so far as practicable(a) there are equal numbers of men and women on the board of every public entity for which he or she is responsible; and (b) all Zimbabwe's regions are fairly represented by the members of the board of every public entity for which he or she is the line Minister; and (c) the members of the board of every public entity of which he or she is the line Minister have an appropriate diversity of skills, experience or qualifications for managing the entity, including skills, experience or qualifications in the fields of law, accountancy and one or more of the engineering disciplines; but all appointments to such boards shall be made primarily on the basis of merit. (8) Where an appropriate directory or database referred to in section 44 ("Regulations') (2)( c) has been established, a line Minister in the process of appointing persons to the board of a public entity must, in addition to canvassing candidates outside such directory or database, have due regard to the selection of candidates listed on such directory or database. (9) In appointing or terminating the appointment of any member of the board of a public entity, the line Minister concemed must notify the President of his or her intention to make such appointment or effect such termination, and must not act on such intention without the prior endorsement of the President. ( l 0) Where the enabling instmment of a public entity requires the line Minister to appoint to the entity's board a person who is nominated by some other person or authority, the line Minister shall appoint that person notwithstanding anything to the contrary in subsection (6), (7), (8) or (9). (11) If the number of members of the board of a public entity falls below the number fixed by any law as a quorum of the board(a) the chief executive officer of the public entity concerned shall immediately notify the line Minister, in writing, of that fact; and (b) the line :tvlin.ister shall take steps to fill the vacancies on the board within ninety days from the date on which the board's membership fell below a quorum, and if within that period he or she is unable to appoint sufficient members to reach a quorum of the board, he or she shall cause the Unit to be notified inunediately of that fact. (1:2) Where a line Minister appoints a person to the board of a public entity, he or she shall cause written notice of the appointment to be sent to the Unit without delay, specifying(a) the name, address and such other personal particulars of the appointee as the Unit may require; and (b) the appointee's qualifications; and (c) the crite1ia on which the appointee was chosen for appointment; and (d) whether the appointee is a member of the board of another public entity and, if so, which board; and (e) \-Vhether the appointee has complied with section 37, requiring certain disclosures for the purpose of avoiding conflicts of interest. 83