Commonwealth Numbered Acts

REFERENDUM (MACHINERY PROVISIONS) ACT 1984 No. 44, 1984 - SECT 5

5. (1) The Electoral Commission shall, for the purposes of each referendum,
appoint an Australian Electoral Officer for each Territory and such an
appointment shall terminate upon the completion of the referendum.

(2) The Electoral Commission may appoint a person to act as Australian
Electoral Officer for a Territory during any period, or during all periods,
when the Australian Electoral Officer for the Territory is absent from duty or
from Australia or is, for any other reason, unable to perform the functions of
his office.

(3) The appointment of a person to act as Australian Electoral Officer for a
Territory ceases to have effect if he resigns the appointment by writing
signed by him and delivered to the Electoral Commission.

(4) While a person is acting as Australian Electoral Officer for a Territory,
he has, and may exercise, all the powers and shall perform all the functions
of the Australian Electoral Officer for the Territory.

(5) The validity of anything done by or in relation to a person purporting to
act under sub-section (1) shall not be called in question on the ground that
the occasion for his appointment had not arisen, that there is a defect or
irregularity in or in connection with his appointment, that the appointment
had ceased to have effect or that the occasion for him to act had not arisen
or had passed.