Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Transport Accident Act 1986 - SECT 18

Acting Directors

18. Acting Directors



(1) If a Director, other than the Chairperson, is unable to perform the duties
of the office, 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 must be nominated in the same manner
as the Director in whose place the person is to act was nominated under
section 15.

(3) 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 the Director for
        whom the person is acting; and

   (b)  if that person is not an officer or employee who holds a full-time
        government office or a full-time office with a statutory corporation,
        is 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 are fixed from time to time by
        the Governor in Council.

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

(5) If a person has been appointed under subsection (1) to act in the place of
a Director during a period of inability 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 continues 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.