Commonwealth Numbered Acts

HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SERVICES COMMISSION ACT 1973 No. 211 of 1973 - SECT 18

18. (1) Where the Chairman is absent from duty or from Australia or there is a
vacancy in the office of Chairman, the Deputy Chairman shall act as Chairman
during the absence or until the filling of the vacancy.

(2) Where the Deputy Chairman is absent from duty or from Australia or there
is a vacancy in the office of Deputy Chairman, the full-time Commissioner (not
being the Chairman or the Deputy Chairman) or, if that full-time Commissioner
is absent from duty or from Australia or there is a vacancy in his office, the
acting full-time Commissioner present in Australia and able to act who has the
longest period or periods of service as a part-time or full-time Commissioner
(including service in an acting capacity), shall be acting Deputy Chairman
during the absence of the Deputy Chairman or until the filling of the vacancy
in his office.

(3) If the Deputy Chairman is at any time acting Chairman, his office shall,
during the period of his so acting, be deemed, for the purposes of this
section, to be vacant.

(4) A person acting as Chairman has all the functions, powers and duties of
the Chairman.

(5) A person acting as Deputy Chairman has all the functions, powers and
duties of the Deputy Chairman including those under sub-section (1).

(6) The validity of anything done by a person acting as Chairman or as
Deputy Chairman shall not be called in question on the ground that the
occasion for his so acting had not arisen or had ceased.