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PUBLIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH ACT 1987 - SECT 8

8—The Public and Environmental Health Council

        (1)         The Public and Environmental Health Council is established.

        (2)         The Council will consist of six members appointed by the Governor, of whom—

            (a)         one (the presiding member) will be a member of the staff of the Department; and

            (b)         two will be persons selected by the Minister from a panel of five nominated by the Executive Council of the Local Government Association of South Australia; and

            (c)         two will be persons nominated by the Minister, being persons who are qualified in, and have extensive experience in, public and environmental health; and

            (d)         one will be an officer or employee of a local council, selected by the Minister from a panel of three nominated by the Australian Institute of Health Surveyors (South Australian Division).

        (3)         Where the Minister, by notice in writing, requests a body to make nominations for the purposes of this section, and the body fails to make the nominations within the time allowed in the notice, a person may be appointed to the Council on the Minister's nomination and that member will be taken to have been appointed on the nomination of the body in default.

        (4)         The Governor may appoint a suitable person to be the deputy of a member of the Council, and the deputy may, in the absence of that member, act as a member of the Council.

        (5)         The provisions of this section relating to the qualification and nomination of a member extend to a deputy to that member.



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