Commonwealth Numbered Acts

TRADE PRACTICES AMENDMENT ACT 1977 No. 81 of 1977 - SECT 10

10. After section 8 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:-
Associate members.
''8A. (1) The Minister may appoint persons to be associate members of the
Commission.

''(2) An associate member of the Commission shall be appointed for such period
not exceeding 5 years as is specified in the instrument of his appointment,
but is eligible for re-appointment.

''(3) Subject to this Part, an associate member of the Commission holds office
on such terms and conditions as the Minister determines.

''(4) The Chairman may, by writing signed by him, direct that, for the
purposes of the exercise of the powers of the Commission under this Act in
relation to a specified matter, not being an exercise of those powers by a
Division of the Commission, a specified associate member of the Commission or
specified associate members of the Commission shall be deemed to be a member
or members of the Commission and, in that case, unless the contrary intention
appears, a reference in this Act to a member of the Commission shall, for the
purposes only of the exercise of the powers of the Commission in relation to
that matter, be construed as including a reference to that associate member of
the Commission or each of those associate members of the Commission, as the
case may be.

''(5) Associate members of the Commission shall be deemed to be members of the
Commission for the purposes of section 19.

''(6) For the purpose of the determination by the Commission of an application
for an authorization or the making by the Commission of any decision for the
purposes of sub-section 93 (3), the Chairman shall consider-

   (a)  whether he should give a direction under sub-section (4) of this
        section; or

   (b)  in the case of a matter in relation to which the Chairman proposes to
        give a direction under sub-section 19 (1), whether he should direct
        that the Division concerned is to include an associate member of the
        Commission or associate members of the Commission.

''(7) Nothing in sub-section (4) or (5) deems an associate member of the
Commission to be a member of the Commission for any purpose related to the
preparation of a report by the Commission under section 171.''.