Queensland Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 686

686 President, deputy president and vice-president of the law society

(1) Subject to subsection (4) , the law society is to have a president, a deputy president and a vice-president, each of whom is to be elected or appointed under the society rules.

(2) The term of office for the president of the law society is 1 year.

(3) If, at the end of the president’s term of office, a person is the deputy president, that person is to assume the office of president.

(4) When the deputy president assumes the office of president, a vacancy exists in the office of deputy president and that office must not be filled until the next election or appointment of all officers of the law society under the society rules.

(5) Subject to subsections (2) to (4) , the term of office of the presidential members is 2 years and each of those presidential members is to be eligible for re-election or reappointment.