Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Accident Compensation Act 1985 - SECT 30

Acting Directors

30. Acting Directors



(1) If a Director is unable to perform the duties of the office of Director,
the Governor in Council may appoint a person to act in the place of that
Director during the period of the inability.

(2) A person appointed under this section while acting in the place of a
Director-

   (a)  has all the powers and may perform all the duties of and has the same
        privileges as the Director for whom the person is acting; and

   (b)  is if that person is not an officer or employee who holds a full-time
        statutory office within the meaning of the
        Public Administration Act 2004 or a full-time office with a statutory
        corporation entitled to be paid-

   (i)  such remuneration as is specified in the instrument of appointment or
        as may be fixed from time to time by the Governor in Council; and

   (ii) such travelling and other allowances as may be fixed from time to time
        by the Governor in Council.

(3) The Governor in Council may at any time terminate an appointment under
subsection (1).

(4) If a person has been appointed under subsection (1) to act in the place of
a Director during a period of inability of that Director and that Director
ceases to hold office without having resumed the performance of the duties of
the office, the period of appointment of the person so appointed shall be
deemed to continue until-

   (a)  the appointment is terminated by the Governor in Council; or

   (b)  the expiration of the period of 12 months after the date on which the
        Director for whom that person is acting ceases to hold office-

whichever first occurs.