New South Wales Consolidated Acts

DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS ACT 1986 - SECT 4A

4A Veto of proposed appointment of Director

(1) A person is not to be appointed as Director until:

(a) a proposal that the person be appointed has been referred to the Committee on the Office of the Ombudsman under section 31BA of the Ombudsman Act 1974 , and

(b) the period that the Committee has under that section to veto the proposed appointment has ended without the Committee having vetoed the proposed appointment or the Committee notifies the Minister that it has decided not to veto the proposed appointment.

(2) A person may be proposed for appointment on more than one occasion.

(3) In this section, "appointment" includes re-appointment.