Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AUSTRALIAN OVERSEAS PROJECTS CORPORATION ACT 1978 No. 105 of 1978 - SECT 29

29. (1) Where there is a vacancy in the office of Managing Director, whether
or not an appointment has previously been made to the office, or the Managing
Director is, or is expected to be, absent from duty or from Australia, the
Minister may appoint another person (not being an appointed Director or an
acting Director), to be acting Managing Director until the filling of the
vacancy or during the absence, and, when a person is so acting as Managing
Director, he shall have and may exercise the powers and perform the functions
of the Managing Director (including powers and functions delegated to the
Managing Director under section 15) and may attend and vote at meetings of the
Board as if he were the Managing Director.

(2) An acting Managing Director appointed by reason of the office of the
Managing Director being vacant shall not continue in office after the
expiration of 12 months after the occurrence of the vacancy.

(3) The Minister may-

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

   (b)  at any time terminate such an appointment.

(4) The validity of an act or thing done by a person appointed, or purporting
to have been appointed, under this section, including the attendance and
voting of such a person at a meeting of the Board, shall not be questioned in
any proceedings on a ground arising from the fact that the occasion for the
appointment had not arisen or that the appointment had ceased to have effect.