New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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(1) In the event of the incapacity of the Commissioner by reason of illness or absence or any other cause, the Governor-General in Council, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, may appoint an acting Commissioner to act for the Commissioner during that incapacity.
(2) In the event of the incapacity of the Deputy Commissioner by reason of illness or absence or any other cause or where the Deputy Commissioner is, pursuant to section 12(3), exercising the functions, duties, and powers of the Commissioner, the Governor-General in Council, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, may appoint an acting Deputy Commissioner to act for the Deputy Commissioner during that incapacity or while the Deputy Commissioner is exercising those functions, duties, and powers.
(3) No appointment of an acting Commissioner or acting Deputy Commissioner, and no act done by an acting Commissioner or acting Deputy Commissioner, as such, shall in any proceedings be questioned on the ground that the occasion for his or her appointment had not arisen or had ceased.
Section 14: substituted, on 19 December 1989, by section 3 of the State Sector Amendment Act (No 2) 1989 (1989 No 136).
