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PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION ACT 2014 (NO. 60 OF 2014) - SECT 100 Suspension and removal from office

PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION ACT 2014 (NO. 60 OF 2014) - SECT 100

Suspension and removal from office

    (1)     The Governor in Council, on the advice of the Minister, may suspend the Commissioner from office on any ground on which the Governor in Council is satisfied that the Commissioner is unfit to hold office.

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

    (3)     The Commissioner must be removed from office by the Governor in Council if each House of Parliament within 20 sitting days after the day when the statement is laid before it declares by resolution that the Commissioner ought to be removed from office.

    (4)     The Governor in Council must remove the suspension and restore the Commissioner to office unless each House makes a declaration of the kind specified in subsection (3) within the time specified in that subsection.

    (5)     If the Commissioner is suspended from office under subsection (1), the Commissioner is taken not to be the Commissioner during the period of suspension.