Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Essential Services Commission Act 2001 - SECT 19

Tenure of office of Chairperson

19. Tenure of office of Chairperson



(1) Subject to this Act, the Chairperson holds office for 5 years and, subject
to this section, is eligible for re-appointment.

(2) The Chairperson may be suspended from office by the Governor in Council,
but must not be removed from office except in accordance with this Act.

(3) The Minister must cause to be laid before each House of the Parliament a
full statement of the grounds of any suspension of the Chairperson within 7
sitting days of the House.

(4) The Chairperson so suspended must be restored to office by the Governor in
Council unless each House of the Parliament, within 42 days after the day on
which the statement is laid before it, and in the same session, declares by
resolution that the Chairperson ought to be removed from office and, if each
House within that time so declares, the Chairperson must be removed from
office by the Governor in Council.

(5) The Chairperson ceases to hold office if he or she becomes bankrupt or
applies to take the benefit of any law for the relief of bankrupt debtors or
compounds with his or her creditors or makes an assignment of his or her
property for their benefit or a deed of arrangement under any law relating to
bankruptcy.





(6) The Chairperson ceases to hold office if he or she nominates for election
for either House of the Parliament of Victoria or for the Parliament of the
Commonwealth or of another State or of a Territory.

(7) The Chairperson may at any time resign by writing signed and addressed to
the Governor in Council.