Is this an issue only because the minister, in proposed section 17, would be given the authority to appoint that chair? If the board were just operating without the minister's having power over the chair, I assume they would vote and simply have an acting chair as a resolution of the board, but because the minister has given himself the authority in proposed section 17, that's not possible.
Is that why this is necessary at all, because the minister would now be appointing the board chair?