Commonwealth Numbered Acts

HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SERVICES COMMISSION ACT 1973 No. 211 of 1973 - SECT 17

17. (1) Where a full-time Commissioner is, or is expected to be, absent from
duty or from Australia or there is, or is expected to be, a vacancy in an
office of full-time Commissioner, the Minister may appoint a person to be an
acting full-time Commissioner during the absence or vacancy.

(2) An acting full-time Commissioner appointed in the event of a vacancy shall
not continue in office after the expiration of 6 months after the occurrence
of the vacancy.

(3) An acting full-time Commissioner has all the functions, powers and duties
of a full-time Commissioner and, for the purposes of section 16, shall be
deemed to be a full-time Commissioner.

(4) The Minister may, at any time, terminate an appointment under this
section.

(5) An acting full-time Commissioner may resign his office by writing under
his hand addressed to the Minister.

(6) A person appointed under this section holds office, subject to this
section, on such terms and conditions as the Minister determines.

(7) The validity of an act done by the Commission shall not be called in
question on the ground that the occasion for the appointment of a person
purporting to be appointed under this section had not arisen or that an
appointment under this section had ceased to have effect.