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Re-appointment to Waterways Board
19/07/2004
Minister for Transport Nicol Stephen today announced the re-appointment by Scottish Ministers of Mr Campbell Christie as a member of the British Waterways Board.
Mr Christie has been a member of the British Waterways (BW) Board for the past six years. He was the General Secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) and represented the STUC on the Scottish Constitutional Convention from its inception in 1987.
Following his retirement from the STUC in 1998 he was appointed to the Board of Scottish Enterprise and also to the Board of British Waterways.
When British Waterways established the BW Scotland Group in 2001 Mr Christie was appointed Chair and has held the position since that date. He retired for the Board of Scottish Enterprise in June of this year.
In addition to the above posts Mr Christie is also Chairman of Falkirk Football and Athletic Club and a Non-Executive Director of South West Trains Ltd.
Mr Christie was awarded the CBE in the 1997 Birthday Honours List. He is a Doctor of Letters at St Andrews, Stirling, Napier, Glasgow Caledonian Universities and at Queen Margaret's University College in Edinburgh.
He is also a Fellow of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) and the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA).
This re-appointment will be for three years and will run from July 1, 2004 to June 30, 2007. The post is part-time and attracts a remuneration of £10,733 per annum for a time commitment of three and a half days per month.
The one other public appointment held by Mr Christie, as a non-executive member of Forth Valley NHS Board, attracts an annual remuneration of £7,000.
BW is a public corporation which runs its affairs on a commercial basis consistent with its statutory powers and its objectives agreed by the Government.
It is expected to promote the use of its waterways for leisure, recreation, tourism, regeneration and transport while also conserving the waterways' natural and built heritage.
Under devolution, responsibility for inland waterways in Scotland is devolved to Scottish Ministers. BW operates on a GB basis and was therefore specified a cross-border public authority by the Scotland Act 1998.
Under an Order to this Act, the Scottish Ministers have largely the same functions with regard to BW in Scotland as those previously held by UK Ministers in GB. Scottish Ministers appoint two members to the BW Board.
This Ministerial public appointment was made in accordance with the Code of Practice issued by the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments.
All appointments are made on merit and political activity plays no part in the selection process. However, in accordance with the original Nolan recommendations, there is a requirement for appointees' political activity (if there is any to be declared) to be made public.
Mr Christie declared that he had canvassed and spoken on behalf of the Labour Party at elections.