Victorian Consolidated Regulations

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATIONS 2017 - REG 553H

    (1)     A committee member's office becomes vacant if—

        (a)     the committee member resigns by signed notice given to the Minister; or

        (b)     the committee member is convicted of an indictable offence, or an offence that, if committed in Victoria, would be an indictable offence; or

        (c)     in the case of a committee member who is not a co-chairperson, the committee member is absent, without the co‑chairpersons' leave and without reasonable excuse, from 3 consecutive meetings of the Committee; or

        (d)     in the case of a co-chairperson, the co‑chairperson is absent, without leave from the Minister and without reasonable excuse, from 3 consecutive meetings of the Committee; or

        (e)     the committee member is removed from office under subregulation (2).

    (2)     The Minister may, at any time, remove a committee member from that office.

    (3)     The co-chairpersons may approve a leave of absence for a committee member.

Reg. 553I inserted by S.R. No. 106/2020 reg. 3.