Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Cancer Act 1958 - SECT 6

Constitution of council

6. Constitution of council





(1) The council shall consist of-





   (a)  the Minister, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, the
        Vice-Chancellor of Monash University, the Vice-Chancellor of La Trobe
        University, the Vice-Chancellor of Deakin University, the Lord Mayor
        of Melbourne, and the Secretary, all of whom shall be ex officio
        members of the council;

   (b)  persons appointed by the Governor in Council upon nomination as
        provided in the Second Schedule to this Act by the committees or other
        governing bodies of the respective associations or bodies of persons
        corporate or unincorporate set out in the said Schedule;

   (c)  not more than four persons appointed by the Governor in Council upon
        nomination by the Minister to represent contributors to the funds of
        the council;

   (d)  three other persons appointed by the Governor in Council upon the
        recommendation of the Minister; and

	(e)     (i)	the chairman for the time being of each of the committees hereinafter provided for; and
   (ii) not more than four members for the time being of the medical and
        scientific committee elected from time to time by that committee.

(1A) The Governor in Council on the recommendation of the council may by
proclamation published in the Government Gazette alter the Second Schedule by
removing or inserting any item therein or by altering the number of nominees
of any institution and the said Second Schedule as so altered shall thereupon
be deemed to be the Second Schedule.

(2) There shall be a president and a vice-president of the council who shall
respectively-

   (a)  be elected as hereinafter provided by the council from among the
        members thereof; and

   (b)  be entitled to hold office as such until the annual meeting of the
        council next following their election.

(3) The president the vice-president and any other member of the council may
resign his office by writing under his hand addressed and delivered or sent by
post to the president or the chief executive officer of the council.