Western Australian Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 2.40

2.40 .         Joint commissioners

        (1)         A power to appoint a commissioner includes power to appoint 3 or 5 commissioners to administer the local government and to appoint one of them to be the chairperson and another to be the deputy chairperson.

        (2)         If 3 or 5 commissioners are appointed — 

            (a)         they are to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the council of the local government jointly;

            (b)         the chairperson is to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the mayor or president; and

            (c)         the deputy chairperson is to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the deputy mayor or deputy president.