Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) The Surveyor-General may be suspended from office by the Governor in Council but must not be removed from office except in accordance with this section.
(2) The Minister must cause to be laid before each House of Parliament a full statement of the grounds of any suspension of the Surveyor-General within 7 sitting days after the suspension.
(3) The Surveyor-General so suspended must be restored to office by the Governor in Council unless each House of Parliament, within 42 days after the day on which a statement under subsection (2) is laid before it and in the same session, declares by resolution that the Surveyor-General ought to be removed from office.
(4) If each House of Parliament within the time referred to in subsection (3) declares by resolution that the Surveyor-General ought to be removed from office, the Surveyor-General is to be removed by the Governor in Council.