(1) The Nursing and Midwifery Undergraduate and Postgraduate Education Board shall have not more than two whole-time Members and not more than two part-time Members other than a President.
(2) The Nursing and Midwifery Assessment and Rating Board and the Nursing and Midwifery Ethics and Registration Board shall consist of a President, not more than two whole-time Members and not more than two part-time Members.
(3) The President of each Autonomous Board, two whole-time Members and one part-time Member of Nursing and Midwifery Undergraduate and Postgraduate Education Board, and one whole-time Member and one part-time Member of Nursing and Midwifery Assessment and Rating Board and Nursing and Midwifery Ethics and Registration Board, shall be persons of outstanding ability, proven administrative capacity and integrity, possessing a postgraduate degree in any discipline of nursing and midwifery from any University and having experience of not less than fifteen years, out of which at least seven years shall be as a nursing and midwifery leader to be appointed by the Central Government on the recommendations of the Search-cum-Selection Committee constituted under section 5.
(4) The second whole-time Member of the Nursing and Midwifery Assessment and Rating Board, to be appointed by the Central Government on the recommendations of the Search-cum-Selection Committee constituted under section 5, shall be a person of outstanding ability and integrity, possessing a postgraduate degree in any of the disciplines of management, quality assurance, law or science and technology from any University, having hands on clinical experience of not less than fifteen years in such field, out of which at least seven years shall be as the Head of a Department or the Head of an Institute or an organisation.
(5) The second whole-time Member of the Nursing and Midwifery Ethics and Registration Board, to be appointed by the Central Government on the recommendations of the Search-cum-Selection Committee constituted under section 5, shall be a person of outstanding ability who has demonstrated public record of work on nursing or medical ethics or a person of outstanding ability possessing a postgraduate degree in any of the disciplines of quality assurance, public health, law or patient advocacy from any University and having experience of not less than fifteen years in such field, out of which at least seven years shall be as the Head of a Department or the Head of an Institute or an organisation.
(6) The second part-time Member of the Nursing and Midwifery Assessment and Rating Board, the Nursing and Midwifery Ethics and Registration Board and the Nursing and Midwifery Undergraduate and Postgraduate Education Board, shall be chosen from amongst the nursing and midwifery Members representing the State Commissions under clause (h) of section 4, in such manner as may be prescribed.