Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER ACT 2005 - SECT 142W

  (1)   Persons elected, or declared to have been elected, as members of the TSRA for a TSRA ward otherwise than at a by - election to fill a casual vacancy:

  (a)   take office as members at the end of the election period concerned; and

  (b)   hold office, subject to this Part, until the end of the election period for the next TSRA election (other than a by - election or an election held for another ward in place of an election in relation to which the Federal Court of Australia has made an order under Schedule   4).

  (2)   A person elected, or declared to have been elected, as a member of the TSRA for a TSRA ward at a by - election to fill a casual vacancy:

  (a)   takes office as member immediately after the day on which the poll is declared in relation to that by - election; and

  (b)   holds office, subject to this Part, until immediately before the last day on which a poll is declared in relation to the next TSRA election (other than a by - election to fill a casual vacancy or an election held for another ward in place of an election in relation to which the Federal Court of Australia has made an order under Schedule   4).

  (3)   In this section:

"by-election to fill a casual vacancy" includes an election of a member of the TSRA to fill a position created by an increase in the eligible number.