Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ABORIGINAL LAND GRANT (JERVIS BAY TERRITORY ) ACT 1986 - SECT 29

             (1)  A person is not eligible to be an executive member unless he or she is a registered member.

             (2)  Subject to subsection (3), executive members shall be elected at annual general meetings.

             (3)  Where a vacancy occurs in the office of an executive member earlier than 30 days before the next annual general meeting, the Chairperson, or, if there is no Chairperson, the Minister, shall convene a special general meeting and an election to fill that vacancy shall be held at that special general meeting.

             (4)  Subject to this Act, an executive member holds his or her office from the time at which he or she is declared to have been elected to the office at an annual general meeting until the time, at the first or second annual general meeting, as the case may be, after that meeting, at which a person is declared to have been elected to that office.

             (5)  An executive member is eligible for re‑election.

             (6)  The functions of the Secretary are:

                     (a)  such functions as are conferred on the Secretary by a provision of this Act (other than this section) or by the regulations; and

                     (b)  such functions as the Council or the executive committee determines to be necessary or desirable for the performance of the functions and the exercise of the powers of the Council.