New Zealand Legislation: Acts

13 Term of office

• (1) The Commissioner and the Deputy Commissioner shall each be appointed for such term, not exceeding 5 years, as shall be specified in the Order in Council by which the Commissioner or the Deputy Commissioner is appointed.

  (2) The Commissioner and the Deputy Commissioner shall each be eligible for reappointment from time to time.

  (3) Where a person who is employed in the State services is appointed as the Commissioner or as the Deputy Commissioner, that person's term of office as Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner shall be deemed, for the purposes of—

  • (a) the Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956; and

  • (b) appointment to any position in the State services on the termination of that person's service as Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner; and

  • (c) entitlement to leave of absence,—

  to be continuous service in that part of the State services in which that person was employed at the date of that person's appointment as Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner.

  Section 13: substituted, on 19 December 1989, by section 3 of the State Sector Amendment Act (No 2) 1989 (1989 No 136).