New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CIVIL AND ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL ACT 2013 - SECT 10

10 Appointment of term members

(1) A person may be appointed as a term member if the person is qualified to be appointed as a member of the kind concerned.

Note : Section 13 makes general provision with respect to qualifications for appointment. A Division Schedule for a Division of the Tribunal may, in some cases, make special provision for the assignment of members to that Division based on particular skills, expertise or qualifications.

(2) A presidential member appointed as a term member is to be appointed by the Governor by commission under the public seal of the State.

Note : The President must be appointed as a term member. See section 9(6).

(3) A non-presidential member appointed as a term member is to be appointed by the Minister by written instrument.

(4) The instrument of appointment of a term member is to specify--

(a) whether the member has been appointed as the President, a Deputy President, principal member, senior member or general member, and

(b) the term for which the member has been appointed.

(5) A term member may be appointed on a full-time basis or a part-time basis.

(6) However, the President is taken to be appointed on a full-time basis.