New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ZOOLOGICAL PARKS BOARD ACT 1973 - SECT 10

10 Vacation of office

(1) A member shall be deemed to have vacated his or her office:

(a) if the member dies,

(b) if the member becomes a bankrupt, applies to take the benefit of any law for the relief of bankrupt or insolvent debtors, compounds with his or her creditors, or makes any assignment of his or her estate for their benefit,

(c) if the member is absent from four consecutive ordinary meetings of the Board of which reasonable notice has been given to him or her personally or in the ordinary course of post except on leave granted by the Board, unless the member is, before the expiration of four weeks after the last of those meetings, excused by the Board for his or her absence from those meetings,

(d) if the member becomes a mentally incapacitated person,

(e) 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,

(f) if the member resigns his or her office by writing under his or her hand addressed to the Minister and the Minister accepts his or her resignation, or

(g) if the member is removed from office by the Minister.

(2) The Minister may, for any cause which appears to the Minister sufficient, remove any appointed member from office.