New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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(1) The Secretary for War Pensions may appoint any official or employee of the Department to attend any meeting of the Advisory Board in the Secretary’s place.
(2) The National President of the New Zealand Returned Services’ Association (Incorporated) may appoint an officer or the chief executive officer of that association to attend any meeting of the Advisory Board in the place of the National President.
(3) The Minister may from time to time appoint a deputy for the medial member, who shall be a medical practitioner; and the person appointed shall hold office at the Minister’s pleasure and may act in place of the medical member for whom he or she is the deputy while that member is unable to attend any meeting of the Advisory Board.
(4) Every person appointed under this section to deputise for a member of the Advisory Board, while so acting, shall be deemed to be a member of the Advisory Board; and the fact that any deputy attends a meeting shall be conclusive proof of the deputy’s authority to do so.
Section 5E: inserted, on 1 April 1989, by section 4 of the War Pensions Amendment Act 1988 (1988 No 148).
Section 5E(2): amended, on 1 July 1999, by section 8 of the Veterans’ Affairs Act 1999 (1999 No 76).
Section 5E(3): amended, on 18 September 2004, by section 175(1) of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (2003 No 48).