Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION ACT 1983 - SECT 21

             (1)  If a non‑executive Director is, or is expected to be, absent from duty or from Australia or, for any other reason, unable to perform the functions of his or her office, the Governor‑General may appoint a person to act as a non‑executive Director during the period of the absence or inability.

             (2)  The Governor‑General may:

                     (a)  determine the terms and conditions of appointment, excluding remuneration and allowances, of a person acting as a non‑executive Director; and

                     (b)  terminate such an appointment at any time.

             (3)  A person acting as a non‑executive Director shall be paid the same remuneration and allowances as are payable to a non‑executive Director.

             (4)  The appointment of a person to act as a non‑executive Director ceases to have effect if he or she resigns the appointment by writing signed by him or her delivered to the Governor‑General.

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

             (6)  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 or that the appointment had ceased to have effect.