Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SUPERANNUATION ACT 1976 No. 31, 1976 - SECT 24

24. (1) Where there is a vacancy in the office of Commissioner, or the
Commissioner is, or is expected to be, absent from duty or from Australia, the
Treasurer may appoint a person to be acting Commissioner until the filling of
the vacancy or during the absence, as the case may be, and, when a person is
so acting as Commissioner, he has the powers and the functions of the
Commissioner, including powers and functions of the Commissioner under any
other Act.

(2) An acting Commissioner appointed by reason of the office of the
Commissioner being vacant shall not continue in office after the expiration of
12 months after the occurrence of the vacancy.

(3) The Treasurer may-

   (a)  determine the terms and conditions of appointment of a person
        appointed as acting Commissioner; and

   (b)  at any time terminate such an appointment.

(4) An acting Commissioner may resign his office by writing signed by him
delivered to the Treasurer, but the resignation does not have effect until it
is accepted by the Treasurer.

(5) The validity of an act done by a person appointed, or purporting to be
appointed, as acting Commissioner shall not be questioned in any proceedings
on a ground arising from the fact that the occasion for the appointment had
not arisen or that the appointment had ceased to have effect.