New South Wales Consolidated Acts

JUDICIAL OFFICERS ACT 1986 - SECT 46

46 Acting judicial members of Commission

(1) If a complaint is made about a judicial officer who is a member of the Commission, the Governor may appoint another judicial officer to act in the member’s place until the complaint is resolved or until the appointment is revoked.

(2) A person appointed under this section:

(a) may act in the place of the member, and

(b) while acting, shall have and may exercise the member’s functions as such a member and shall be deemed to be a member.

(3) While an appointment under this section continues, neither:

(a) the member in whose place the person was appointed; nor

(b) an alternate of the member,

may exercise any functions as a member.