Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

REGISTRATION OF DEATHS ABROAD ACT 1984 - SECT 6

             (1)  The Minister may appoint a person who is engaged under the Public Service Act 1999 to act as Registrar:

                     (a)  during a vacancy in the office of Registrar; or

                     (b)  during any period, or during all periods, when the Registrar is absent from duty or from Australia or is, for any other reason, unable to perform the functions of his or her office;

but a person appointed to act during a vacancy shall not continue so to act for more than 12 months.

             (2)  An appointment of a person under subsection (1) may be expressed to have effect only in such circumstances as are specified in the instrument of appointment.

             (3)  The Minister may:

                     (a)  determine the terms and conditions of appointment of a person acting as Registrar; and

                     (b)  terminate such an appointment at any time.

             (4)  Where a person is acting as Registrar in accordance with paragraph (1)(b) and the office of Registrar becomes vacant while that person is so acting then, subject to subsection (2), that person may continue so to act until the Minister otherwise directs, the vacancy is filled or a period of 12 months from the date on which the vacancy occurred expires, whichever first happens.

             (5)  The appointment of a person to act as Registrar ceases to have effect if he or she resigns his or her appointment by writing signed by him or her and delivered to the Minister.

             (6)  While a person is acting as Registrar, he or she has and may exercise all the powers, and shall perform all the functions, of the Registrar and shall be deemed to be the Registrar for the purposes of the provisions of this Act, other than section 4 and this section.

             (7)  The validity of anything done by 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 is a defect or irregularity in or in connection with his or her 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.