Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) If an appointed
member of the Authority’s board of management other than the chairman is
unable to act because of sickness, absence or other cause, the Minister may
appoint another person as an alternate member to act temporarily in the
member’s place.
(2) If the deputy
chairman is acting in place of the chairman at a meeting, the Minister may
appoint another person as an alternate member to act temporarily as the deputy
chairman.
(3) Section 22(4)
and (5) apply to the appointment of an alternate member as if a reference
in each of those provisions to a member included a reference to an alternate
member.
(4) While acting in
accordance with the appointment the alternate member is to be taken to be, and
to have any entitlement of, a member.
(5) An act or omission
of an alternate member cannot be questioned on the ground that the occasion
for the appointment or acting had not arisen or had ceased.