South Australian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

IRRIGATION ACT 1994 - SECT 19

19—Presiding officers of trust

        (1)         The first presiding officer of a trust of an irrigation district that had been a private irrigation area or district under a repealed Act will be the person who immediately before the commencement of this Act was chairman of the board of management of the area or where there was no such chairman, the person who held an equivalent position.

        (2)         The first presiding officer and deputy presiding officer of a trust of an irrigation district established, formed by merger or converted from a government irrigation district by public notice under this Act will be the persons appointed to those offices by the notice.

        (3)         A resolution passed at a general meeting of a trust—

            (a)         may remove a person from the office of presiding officer or deputy presiding officer of the trust; or

            (b)         may appoint to the office of presiding officer or deputy presiding officer any member of the trust.

        (4)         The deputy presiding officer may act in the absence of the presiding officer or during a vacancy in the office of presiding officer.