New South Wales Consolidated Acts

GOVERNMENT SECTOR AUDIT ACT 1983 - SECT 54

54 Constitution of Public Accounts Committee

(1) As soon as practicable after the commencement of the first session of each Parliament, a committee of members of the Legislative Assembly, to be known as the Public Accounts Committee, shall be appointed.

(2) The Committee shall consist of 6 members.

(3) The appointment of members of the Committee shall be in accordance with the practice of the Legislative Assembly with respect to the appointment of members to serve on select committees of the Legislative Assembly.

(4) A member of the Legislative Assembly is not eligible for appointment as a member of the Committee if the member is a Minister of the Crown or a Parliamentary Secretary.

(5) A member of the Committee ceases to hold office--

(a) when the Legislative Assembly is dissolved or expires by the effluxion of time,

(b) if the member becomes a Minister of the Crown or a Parliamentary Secretary,

(c) if the member ceases to be a member of the Legislative Assembly,

(d) if the member resigns the office by instrument in writing addressed to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, or

(e) if the member is discharged from office by the Legislative Assembly.

(6) The Legislative Assembly may appoint one of its members (not being a Minister of the Crown or a Parliamentary Secretary) to fill a vacancy in the office of a member of the Committee.

(7) Any act or proceeding of the Committee is, notwithstanding that at the time when the act or proceeding was done, taken or commenced there was--

(a) a vacancy in the office of a member of the Committee, or

(b) any defect in the appointment, or any disqualification, of a member of the Committee,

as valid as if the vacancy, defect or disqualification did not exist and the Committee were fully and properly constituted.