New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RACING APPEALS TRIBUNAL ACT 1983 - SECT 7

7 Appointment of acting Tribunal

(1) The Minister may from time to time, upon the recommendation of the Attorney General, appoint:

(a) a qualified person to act as the Tribunal:

(i) during the illness or absence of the person appointed as the Tribunal,

(ii) during a vacancy in the office of the Tribunal, or

(iii) on such occasions or in respect of such appeals as the person appointed as the Tribunal directs, and

(b) another qualified person to act as the Tribunal in the circumstances described in paragraph (a), but to act only during the illness or absence of the person appointed to act as the Tribunal under paragraph (a).

(2) A qualified person while acting as the Tribunal shall be deemed to be the Tribunal.

(3) More than one sitting of the Tribunal may be held at the same time, but the person appointed as the Tribunal and a person appointed to act as the Tribunal shall not sit on the same appeal.