New South Wales Consolidated Acts

GREYHOUND RACING ACT 2017 - SECT 22

22 Removal of directors and appointment of administrator

(1) The Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, remove all the directors of the Board from office and appoint a person as the administrator of GRNSW.

(2) Such an order may be made--

(a) if the Minister is satisfied that GRNSW has failed--

(i) to exercise its functions in accordance with an operating licence granted to GRNSW, or

(ii) to comply with any direction in writing by the Minister to rectify a matter relating to the obligations of GRNSW under an operating licence granted to GRNSW, or

(b) if a report is made by the Commission to the Minister under section 65 indicating that there has been a contravention of this Act, the regulations, the code of practice or the greyhound racing rules in relation to a greyhound race meeting conducted by GRNSW, or

(c) in such other circumstances as may be prescribed by the regulations.

(3) On the appointment of an administrator--

(a) each director of the Board ceases to hold office, and

(b) the affairs of GRNSW are to be managed by the administrator, and

(c) the administrator has and may exercise all the functions of GRNSW, and

(d) any act, matter or thing done in the name of, or on behalf of, GRNSW by the administrator is taken to have been done by GRNSW.

(4) Subject to this section, an administrator holds office for the period specified in the administrator's instrument of appointment.

(5) The Minister may remove an administrator from office at any time by order published in the Gazette.

(6) The Minister may determine the remuneration and other conditions of employment of the administrator.

(7) The remuneration and other expenses of the administrator are payable by GRNSW.