Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act 1984 No. 162 of 1984 - SECT 5

5. After section 127 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Acting Industrial Registrar or Deputy Industrial Registrar

"127A. (1) The Minister may appoint a person to act as Industrial Registrar or
as a Deputy Industrial Registrar-

   (a)  during a vacancy in the office of Industrial Registrar or an office of
        Deputy Industrial Registrar, as the case may be; or

   (b)  during any period, or during all periods, when the Industrial
        Registrar or a Deputy Industrial Registrar, as the case may be, 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 Minister may at any time terminate an appointment under this section.

"(4) Where a person is acting as Industrial Registrar or as a Deputy
Industrial Registrar in accordance with paragraph (1) (b) and the office of
Industrial Registrar or of that Deputy Industrial Registrar, as the case may
be, becomes vacant while that person is so acting, then, subject to
sub-section (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 Industrial Registrar or as a Deputy
Industrial Registrar ceases to have effect if he resigns his appointment by
writing signed by him and delivered to the Minister.

"(6) While a person is acting as Industrial Registrar or as a Deputy
Industrial Registrar, he has and may exercise all the powers, and shall
perform all the functions, of the Industrial Registrar or of a Deputy
Industrial Registrar, as the case may be, under this Act or any other law.

"(7) 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 is a defect or
irregularity in or in connection with his appointment, that the appointment
had ceased to have effect or that the occasion for him to act had not arisen
or had ceased.

"(8) A reference in this section to the Minister shall be construed as
including a reference to a person authorized in writing by the Minister to act
on behalf of the Minister for the purposes of this section.".