New South Wales Consolidated Acts

DENTAL TECHNICIANS REGISTRATION ACT 1975 - SECT 7

7 Vacation of office

(1) A member is taken to have vacated office if the member:

(a) dies, or

(b) becomes a mentally incapacitated person, or

(c) becomes bankrupt, applies to take the benefit of any law for the relief of bankrupt or insolvent debtors, compounds with his or her creditors or makes an assignment of his or her remuneration for their benefit, or

(d) is convicted in New South Wales of an offence that is punishable by imprisonment for 12 months or more or is convicted elsewhere than in New South Wales of an offence that, if committed in New South Wales, would be an offence so punishable, or

(e) resigns office by instrument in writing addressed to the Governor, or

(f) is absent from 3 consecutive meetings of the board of which reasonable notice has been given to the member personally or in the ordinary course of post unless, before the expiration of 6 weeks after the last of those meetings, the member is excused by the board for having been absent from those meetings, or

(g) not being the member appointed under section 6 (1) (a), ceases to hold the qualification by which he or she was nominated for appointment as a member, or

(h) is removed from office by the Governor under subsection (2).

(2) The Governor may at any time and for any reason remove a person from office as a member.