Sport, Fitness, and Leisure Act 1987 No 13 (as at 03 September 2007), Public Act

  • repealed
  • Sport, Fitness, and Leisure Act 1987: repealed, on 1 January 2003, by section 63 of the Sport and Recreation New Zealand Act 2002 (2002 No 38).
6 Extraordinary vacancies
  • (1) Any member of the Commission may at any time be removed from office by the Minister for inability to perform the functions of the office, bankruptcy, neglect of duty, or misconduct, proved to the satisfaction of the Minister, or may at any time resign by written notice to the Minister.

    (2) When the office of any member of the Commission becomes vacant by death, resignation, or removal from office, the vacancy so created shall as soon as practicable be filled in the manner in which the appointment to the vacant office was originally made. Every person so appointed shall hold office for the residue of the term for which that person's predecessor would have held office if the vacancy had not occurred.

    (3) Any member shall be deemed to have vacated office if the member is absent from 3 consecutive meetings of the Commission without its leave.

    This Act was repealed as from 1 January 2003, by section 63 Sport and Recreation New Zealand Act 2002 (2002 No 38). See clause 2 Sport and Recreation New Zealand Act Commencement Order 2002 (SR 2002/376).

    Subsection (1) was amended, as from 1 January 2002, by section 70(1) Human Rights Amendment Act 2001 (2001 No 96), by substituting the words inability to perform the functions of the office for the word disability.