AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY (SELF-GOVERNMENT) ACT 1988 - SECT 44 Deputy Chief Minister for the Territory
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY (SELF-GOVERNMENT) ACT 1988 - SECT 44
Deputy Chief Minister for the Territory(1) The Chief Minister shall appoint one of the Ministers to be Deputy Chief Minister for the Territory.
(2) The Deputy Chief Minister shall act as Chief Minister at any time when there is a vacancy in the office of Chief Minister or the Chief Minister is absent from duty or from Australia or is, for any other reason, unable to exercise the powers of Chief Minister.
(3) While the Deputy Chief Minister is acting as Chief Minister, he or she shall exercise all the powers of the Chief Minister other than the dismissal of a Minister.
(4) The exercise of the powers of the Chief Minister by the
Deputy Chief Minister during the absence of the Chief Minister from Australia
does not affect the exercise of a power by the Chief Minister.