Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION ACT 1983 - SECT 19

             (1)  Where there is no Chairperson or the Chairperson is absent from duty or from Australia or is, for any other reason, unable to perform the functions of Chairperson:

                     (a)  the Deputy Chairperson shall act as Chairperson; or

                     (b)  if there is no Deputy Chairperson, or the Deputy Chairperson is absent from duty or from Australia or is, for any other reason, unable to act as Chairperson, the Governor‑General may appoint a non‑executive Director to act as Chairperson, but any such appointment ceases to have effect if:

                              (i)  where there is no Deputy Chairperson--a non‑executive Director is appointed as Deputy Chairperson; or

                             (ii)  where the Deputy Chairperson is absent from duty or from Australia or is, for any other reason, unable to act as Chairperson--the Deputy Chairperson ceases to be so absent or becomes able to act as Chairperson.

             (2)  The appointment of a person under paragraph (1)(b) ceases to have effect if he or she resigns the appointment by writing signed by him or her delivered to the Governor‑General.

             (3)  While a Director is acting as Chairperson he or she has and may exercise all the powers, and shall perform all the functions and duties, of the Chairperson under this Act.

             (4)  The validity of anything done by or in relation to a person purporting to act under subsection (1) shall not be called in question on the ground that the occasion for his or her appointment had not arisen, that there was a defect or irregularity in or in connection with the appointment, that the appointment had ceased to have effect or that the occasion for him or her to act had not arisen or had ceased.