Radiation Protection Act 1965 No 23 (as at 01 July 2011), Public Act

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5C Substitutes for members
  • (1) If the member specified in section 5(2)(b) is unable to attend any meeting of the Council, that member may appoint another person employed in the National Radiation Laboratory to attend the meeting in that member's place.

    (2) [Repealed]

    (3) If any member appointed under paragraph (d) or paragraph (e) or paragraph (f) of section 5(2) is unable to attend any meeting of the Council, that member may appoint any other person who is eligible for appointment under that paragraph to attend the meeting in that member's place.

    (4) Subject to subsection (5), where any person appointed under any of the provisions of subsections (1) to (3) attends a meeting of the Council, that person shall, while so attending, be deemed to be a member of the Council.

    (5) No person appointed under any of the provisions of subsections (1) to (3) shall act as Chairman of the Council.

    (6) No appointment under any of the provisions of subsections (1) to (3), and no act done by a person appointed under any of those provisions, and no act done by the Council while any such person is acting in the place of the member by whom that person was appointed, shall in any proceedings be questioned on the ground that the occasion for that person's appointment had not arisen or had ceased.

    Section 5C: inserted, on 6 November 1986, by section 2 of the Radiation Protection Amendment Act 1986 (1986 No 107).

    Section 5C(2): repealed, on 1 July 1992, by section 46(1) of the Crown Research Institute Act 1992 (1992 No 47).