New Zealand Legislation: Acts

8 Deputy presiding member

• (1) The Commission, at its first meeting after the commencement of this Act and from time to time thereafter, shall appoint one of its members to be the deputy presiding member of the Commission.

  (2) The deputy presiding member shall be appointed to that office for a period not exceeding one year but, subject to subsection (3) of this section, shall continue to hold the office of deputy presiding member until a succeeding deputy presiding member is appointed, and shall be eligible for reappointment.

  (3) If the deputy presiding member ceases to be a member of the Commission, he or she shall cease to hold the office of deputy presiding member.

  (4) When the office of deputy presiding member becomes vacant the vacancy shall be filled as soon as practicable after its occurrence.

  (5) The deputy presiding member shall perform all the functions and duties and exercise all the powers of the presiding member—

  • (a) With the consent of the presiding member, at any time during the temporary absence of the presiding member:

  • (b) Without that consent, at any time while the presiding member is temporarily incapacitated or prevented by illness or other cause from performing the functions and duties of that office:

  • (c) While there is a vacancy in the office of presiding member.

  (6) No acts done by the deputy presiding member or the temporary presiding member appointed under section 9(2) of this Act acting as the presiding member shall in any proceedings be questioned on the grounds that the occasion for so acting had not arisen or had ceased.

  This Act was repealed as from 1 January 2003, by section 63 Sport and Recreation New Zealand Act 2002 (2002 No 38).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).