Commonwealth Numbered Acts

INDUSTRIES ASSISTANCE COMMISSION ACT 1973 No. 169 of 1973 - SECT 16

16. (1) The Governor-General may suspend a Commissioner or an Associate
Commissioner from office on the ground of misbehaviour or physical or mental
incapacity.

(2) Where the Governor-General suspends a Commissioner or an Associate
Commissioner from office, the Minister shall cause a statement of the ground
of the suspension to be laid before each House of the Parliament within seven
sitting days of the House after the suspension.

(3) Where such a statement has been laid before a House of the Parliament,
that House may, within fifteen sitting days of that House after the day on
which the statement has been laid before it, by resolution, declare that the
Commissioner or Associate Commissioner should be restored to office and, if
each House so passes a resolution, the Governor-General shall terminate the
suspension.

(4) If, at the expiration of fifteen sitting days of a House of the Parliament
after the day on which the statement has been laid before that House, that
House has not passed such a resolution, the Governor-General may remove the
Commissioner or Associate Commissioner from office.

(5) If a Commissioner or Associate Commissioner becomes bankrupt, applies to
take the benefit of any law for the relief of bankrupt or insolvent debtors,
compounds with his creditors or makes an assignment of his remuneration for
their benefit, the Governor-General shall remove him from office.

(6) A Commissioner or Associate Commissioner shall not be removed from office
except as provided by this section.

(7) Where a Commissioner or Associate Commissioner who is contributing to the
Superannuation Fund under the Superannuation Act 1922-1973 is removed from
office under sub-section (4) on the ground of physical or mental incapacity,
he shall be deemed, for the purposes of that Act, to have been retired on the
ground of invalidity on the day on which he was suspended from office.

(8) A Commissioner or Associate Commissioner who is suspended from office
under this section is not entitled to be paid any remuneration or allowances
in respect of the period of his suspension unless he is restored to office.