Queensland Consolidated Acts

JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY ACT 1997 - SECT 73

73 Ballot, and term of office, for elected members

(1) At least 14 days before the new appointed members are appointed, a ballot under section 15(3) of the post-amended Act must be conducted for elected members.

(2) Subsection (3) applies to a person who, immediately before the ballot is conducted, is an elected member mentioned in section 15(2)(a) of the pre-amended Act.

(3) The person’s term of office ends when the person who is the member’s successor is elected under the ballot.

(4) Subsection (5) applies to a person who, immediately before the ballot is conducted, is an elected member mentioned in section 15(2)(b) of the pre-amended Act.

(5) The person’s term of office ends when the elected members mentioned in section 15(2)(b) of the post-amended Act are elected under the ballot.

(6) Subsection (7) applies to a person who, immediately before the ballot is conducted, is an elected member mentioned in section 15(2)(c) of the pre-amended Act.

(7) The person’s term of office ends when the elected member mentioned in section 15(2)(c) of the post-amended Act is elected under the ballot.

(8) Subsection (9) applies to a person who, immediately before the ballot is conducted, is an elected member mentioned in section 15(2)(d) of the pre-amended Act.

(9) The person’s term of office ends when the elected members mentioned in section 15(2)(f) of the post-amended Act are elected under the ballot.

(10) A person is taken to be elected under the ballot when the new appointed members’ terms of office start.

(11) Despite section 19(3), the term of office of a person elected under the ballot starts when the new appointed members’ terms of office start.

(12) Subsections (3), (5), (7) and (9) apply despite section 72(3).

(13) In this section—

"post-amended Act" means this Act as in force after the commencement of the University Legislation Amendment Act 2005 , part 4 .