Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION (ELECTION) ACT 1997 No. 128 of 1997 - SECT 19

(1) The Electoral Commissioner must, for the purposes of the election for the
*Australian Capital Territory, appoint an AEO for the Australian Capital
Territory. The appointment is to terminate upon the completion of the
election.

(2) The Electoral Commissioner may appoint a person to act as AEO for the
*Australian Capital Territory during any period, or during all periods, when
the AEO for the Territory is absent from duty or from Australia or is, for any
other reason, unable to perform the functions of the Office.

(3) The appointment of a person to act as AEO for the *Australian Capital
Territory ceases to have effect if the person delivers to the Electoral
Commissioner a signed notice of resignation.

(4) A person acting as AEO for the *Australian Capital Territory has, and may
exercise, all the powers and must perform all the functions of the AEO for the
Territory.

(5) The validity of anything done by or in relation to a person purporting to
act under subsection (2) cannot be called into question on the ground that the
occasion for the appointment had not arisen, that there is a defect or
irregularity in or in connection with the appointment, that the appointment
had ceased to have effect or that the occasion for the person to act had not
arisen or had passed.