law: Press Council Act, 1978
  6.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:
  Provided that the chairman shall continue to
  
  hold such office until the council is reconstituted in accordance with the
  
  provisions of section 5 for a period of six months whichever is earlier.
  (2) where a person nominated as a member under
  
  clause (a) clause (b) or clause (c) of sub-section (3) of section 5 if censured
  
  under the provisions of sub-section (1) of section 14, he shall cease to be a
  
  member of the council.
  (3) The term of office of a member nominated
  
  under clause (e) of sub-section (3) of section 5 shall come to an end as soon as
  
  he ceases to be a member of the House from which he was nominated.
  (4) a member shall be deemed to have vacated
  
  his seat if he is absent without excuse, sufficient in the opinion of the
  
  council, from three consecutive meetings of the Council.
  (5) 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, the chairman or the member shall be deemed to have vacated his
  
  office.
  (6) Any vacancy arising under sub-section (2)
  
  sub-section (3) sub-section (4) or sub-section (5) or otherwise shall be
  
  filled, as soon as may be, nomination in the same manner in which the member
  
  vacating office was nominated and the member no nominated so nominated shall
  
  hold office for the remaining period in which the member in whose place he is
  
  nominated would have held office.
  (7) A retiring member shall be eligible for
  
  re-nomination for not more than one term.