Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983 No. 6 of 1983 - SECT 20

20. (1) The Board may appoint a person to act as Managing Director-

   (a)  during a vacancy in the office of Managing Director, whether or not an
        appointment has previously been made to the office; or

   (b)  during any period, or during all periods, when the Managing Director
        is absent from duty or from Australia or is, for any other reason,
        unable to perform the functions of his 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 sub-section (1) may be expressed to have
effect only in such circumstances as are specified in the instrument of
appointment.

(3) The Board may-

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

   (b)  terminate such an appointment at any time.

(4) An officer of the Corporation who is acting as Managing Director shall
continue to be paid the remuneration and allowances payable to him as such an
officer but shall also be paid-

   (a)  so much of any remuneration payable to the Managing Director as
        exceeds the remuneration that so continues to be paid to the officer;

   (b)  so much of any allowance payable to the Managing Director as exceeds
        the corresponding allowance that so continues to be paid to the
        officer; and

   (c)  if an allowance is payable to the Managing Director in respect of
        which there is no corresponding allowance payable to the officer-that
        allowance.

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

(6) The appointment of a person to act as Managing Director ceases to have
effect if he resigns his appointment by writing signed by him delivered to the
Chairman or, if a Director is acting as Chairman, to the Director so acting.

(7) While a person is acting as Managing Director, he has and may exercise all
the powers, and shall perform all the functions and duties, of the
Managing Director under this Act.

(8) A reference in this Act other than this section and section 9 to the
Managing Director shall, if a person is acting as Managing Director, be
construed as a reference to the person so acting.

(9) The validity of anything done by or in relation to a person purporting to
act under sub-section (1) shall not be called in question on the ground that
the occasion for his appointment had not arisen, that there was a defect or
irregularity in or in connection with his appointment, that his appointment
had ceased to have effect or that the occasion for him to act had not arisen
or had ceased.