SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE TRUST ACT 1961 - SECT 8
Casual vacancies
SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE TRUST ACT 1961 - SECT 8
Casual vacancies
8 Casual vacancies
(1) A trustee shall be deemed to have vacated office if the trustee:
(a) dies,
(b) resigns office by writing under the trustee's hand addressed to the
Governor,
(c) becomes a mentally incapacitated person,
(d) is absent from
three consecutive ordinary meetings of the Trust of which notice has been
given to the trustee personally or in the ordinary course of post and is not
before the expiration of six weeks after the last of such meetings excused by
the Trust for his or her absence from such meetings,
(e) is removed from
office by the Governor,
(f) accepts or continues to hold after appointment as
a trustee:
(i) a position or employment with, or, whether in an honorary
capacity or otherwise, membership of, the board or committee of management of
any corporation, society, authority, organisation or association which is a
party or becomes a party to a contract or arrangement with the Trust for the
use or hire of the Opera House or any part thereof, or
(ii) a pecuniary
interest or benefit whether direct or indirect in or from any contract or
arrangement with the Trust for the use or hire of the Opera House or any part
thereof,
and the Minister in the circumstances of the case considers that the
office of the trustee should become vacant.
(2) The Governor may, for any
cause which appears to the Governor to be sufficient, remove any trustee from
office.