law: Press Council Act, 1965
  5.Term of office and retirement of members.-
  (1) Save as otherwise provided in this
  
  section, the Chairman and other members shall hold office for a period of three
  
  years.
  (2) Where a person chosen as a member under
  
  clause (a) or clause (b) of sub-section (3) of section 4 is censured under the
  
  provisions of sub-section (1) of section 13, he shall cease to be a member of
  
  the Council.
  (3) The term of office of a member chosen
  
  under clause (d) of sub-section (3) of section 4 shall come to an end as soon
  
  as he ceases to be a member of the House from which he was chosen.
  (4) The Chairman may resign his office by
  
  giving notice in writing to the Central Government and any other member may
  
  resign his office by giving notice in writing to the Chairman; and upon such
  
  resignation being accepted by the Central Government or, as the case may be,
  
  the Chairman, he shall be deemed to have vacated his office.
  (5) A casual vacancy arising under sub-section
  
  (2) or sub-section (3) or sub-section (4) or otherwise shall be filled by fresh
  
  appointment and a member so appointed shall hold office for the remaining
  
  period for which the member in whose place he is appointed would have held
  
  office.
  (6) Every fresh appointment to fill a casual
  
  vacancy or a vacancy caused by the retirement of a member shall be made from
  
  the same category of persons to which the member in whose place the appointment
  
  is to be made belonged, and every such appointment shall be made by the same
  
  authority by which and in the same manner in which, that member was appointed.
  (7) A retiring member shall be eligible for
  
  re-appointment:
  Provided that no member shall hold office for a
  
  period exceeding six years in the aggregate and on the expiry of such period he
  
  shall cease to be a member.