Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE ACT 1979 - SECT 18

             (1)  At any time when the office of Commissioner or an office of Deputy Commissioner is or is expected to be vacant (whether or not the office has previously been filled), the Minister may appoint a person to act as Commissioner or as a Deputy Commissioner, as the case may be, until the filling of the vacancy, but a person so appointed shall not continue so to act for more than 12 months.

             (2)  While a person is acting as Commissioner or as a Deputy Commissioner under subsection (1), he or she has, and may exercise, all the powers (except a power to make a declaration under subsection 40D(4)), and shall perform all the functions and duties, of the Commissioner or of the Deputy Commissioner, as the case may be.

             (3)  The Minister may:

                     (a)  determine the terms and conditions of appointment, including remuneration and allowances, of a person appointed under this section; and

                     (b)  at any time terminate such an appointment.

             (4)  The appointment of a person under this section ceases to have effect if he or she resigns the appointment by writing signed by him or her and delivered to the Minister.

             (5)  The validity of anything done by a person purporting to act in accordance with this section shall not be called in question by reason of any defect or irregularity in or in connection with his or her appointment or on the ground that the occasion for his or her so acting had not arisen or had ceased.