New South Wales Consolidated Acts

TEACHER HOUSING AUTHORITY ACT 1975 - SECT 11

11 Vacation of office

(1) A member shall be deemed to have vacated the member’s office:

(a) if the member dies,

(d) if the member is absent from four consecutive ordinary meetings of the Authority of which reasonable notice has been given the member either personally or in the ordinary course of post unless on leave granted by the Authority or unless the member is, before the expiration of four weeks after the last of those meetings, excused by the Authority for the member’s absence from those meetings,

(e) if the member becomes bankrupt, applies to take the benefit of any law for the relief of bankrupt or insolvent debtors, compounds with the member’s creditors or makes any assignment of the member’s remuneration or allowances, or of the member’s estate, for their benefit,

(f) if the member becomes a temporary patient, a continued treatment patient, a protected person or an incapable person within the meaning of the Mental Health Act 1958 or a person under detention under Part 7 of that Act,

(g) if he or she is convicted in New South Wales of an indictable 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,

(h) if the member resigns the member’s office by writing under the member’s hand addressed to the Governor and the Governor accepts the resignation,

(i) if, at any meeting of the Authority at which the member is present and at which any agreement or proposed agreement in which the member has a direct or indirect pecuniary interest, or any other matter in which the member has such an interest, is the subject of consideration or is included on the agenda for consideration:

(i) the member fails, as soon as practicable after the commencement of the meeting, to disclose to the meeting the member’s interest in, or

(ii) the member takes part in the consideration or discussion of, or votes on any question with respect to,

the agreement, proposed agreement or other matter,

(j) if, by virtue of the member’s office as a member, the member accepts or acquires any personal profit or advantage otherwise than under this or any other Act,

(k) if, being a member referred to in section 7 (1) (a1) or (c), the member ceases to be qualified as provided by section 7 (1) (a1) or (c), or

(l) if, not being a member referred to in section 7 (1) (a1) or (c), the member is removed from office by the Governor.

(2) The Governor may, for any cause which to the Governor seems sufficient, remove any member (other than the member referred to in section 7 (1) (a1) or (c)) from office.

(3) Where:

(a) a member has, for the purposes of the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth, a relevant interest in a share in a company all or any of the shares in which are listed for quotation on a prescribed financial market within the meaning of section 9 of the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth, and

(b) the company has a direct or indirect pecuniary interest in any agreement or proposed agreement or in any other matter the subject of consideration at a meeting of the Authority,

the member does not, by reason only of that relevant interest, have a direct or indirect pecuniary interest in that agreement, proposed agreement or other matter.