Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CANNED FRUITS MARKETING AMENDMENT ACT 1984 No. 148 of 1984 - SECT 10

10. Section 24 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section is
substituted: Acting Chairperson

"24. (1) Where there is no Chairperson or the Chairperson is absent from duty
or from Australia or is, for any other reason, unable to perform the functions
of Chairperson-

   (a)  the Deputy Chairperson shall act as Chairperson; or

   (b)  if there is no Deputy Chairperson or the Deputy Chairperson is absent
        from duty or from Australia or is, for any other reason, unable to act
        as Chairperson, the Minister may appoint a person to act as
        Chairperson, but any such appointment ceases to have effect if-

        (i)    where there is no Deputy Chairperson-a person is appointed as
               Deputy Chairperson; or

        (ii)   where the Deputy Chairperson is absent from duty or from
               Australia or is, for any other reason, unable to act as
               Chairperson-the Deputy Chairperson ceases to be so absent or
               becomes able to act as Chairperson.



"(2) A person shall not be appointed to act as Chairperson unless the person
is qualified, in accordance with sub-section 22 (5), to be appointed as
Chairperson.

"(3) The appointment of a person under paragraph (1) (b) ceases to have effect
if the person resigns the appointment by writing signed by the person
delivered to the Minister.

"(4) While a person is acting as Chairperson that person has and may exercise
all the powers, and shall perform all the functions and duties, of the
Chairperson under this Act.

"(5) 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 the appointment had not arisen, that there was 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 ceased.".