New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FORESTRY ACT 1916 - SECT 5

5 Constitution of the commission

(1) The Governor shall appoint some person as commissioner, who shall constitute the Forestry Commission.

(2)

(a) The Governor may from time to time appoint two Assistant Commissioners to assist the Commissioner in the exercise and discharge of the Commissioner’s powers, authorities, duties and functions under this or any other Act.
The Minister may from time to time, after consulting the Commissioner, allot the duties of the Assistant Commissioners respectively.

(2A) The employment of the Commissioner and each Assistant Commissioner is subject to Part 2A of the Public Sector Management Act 1988 , but is not subject to Part 2 of that Act.

(7)

(a) In the case of the absence from duty of the Commissioner the Governor may appoint one of the Assistant Commissioners a deputy to act in the place of the Commissioner during the Commissioner’s absence.

(b) Any deputy appointed under this subsection while acting as deputy shall have the immunities and may exercise and discharge all the powers, authorities, duties and functions of the Commissioner in whose place the deputy acts.

(c) A deputy appointed under this subsection may if the Minister thinks fit be paid such remuneration for the deputy’s services, including travelling and subsistence allowances, as the Minister may determine.

(d) No person shall be concerned to inquire whether or not any occasion has arisen requiring or authorising a deputy to act in the place of the Commissioner, or as to the necessity or propriety of any appointment of a deputy; and all acts or things done or omitted by a deputy when so acting as aforesaid shall be as valid and effectual and shall have the same consequences as if the same had been done or omitted by the Commissioner for whom the deputy is acting.