Commonwealth Numbered Acts

TRADE PRACTICES AMENDMENT ACT 1978 No. 206 of 1978 - SECT 7

7. After section 44 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted in
Part III: Acting appointments
''44A. (1) The Minister may appoint a person who is an officer or employee for
the purposes of the Public Service Act 1922 to act as the Registrar or as a
Deputy Registrar during any period, or during all periods, when-

   (a)  the Registrar or that Deputy Registrar, as the case may be, is absent
        from duty or from Australia or is, for any other reason, unable to
        perform the duties and functions of his office; or

   (b)  there is a vacancy in the office of Registrar or in that office of
        Deputy Registrar, as the case may be.

''(2) A person acting as the Registrar or as a Deputy Registrar by reason of a
vacancy in the office of Registrar or of that Deputy Registrar shall not
continue so to act after the expiration of 12 months after the occurrence of
the vacancy.

''(3) A person appointed to act as the Registrar or as a Deputy Registrar has,
while acting as the Registrar or as that Deputy Registrar, as the case may be,
all the duties and functions of the Registrar or of that Deputy Registrar, and
references in this Act to the Registrar or to a Deputy Registrar shall-

   (a)  if a person is acting as the Registrar-be read as a reference to the
        person so acting; or

   (b)  if a person is acting as a Deputy Registrar-be read as including a
        reference to the person so acting.

''(4) The Minister may at any time terminate an appointment of a person to act
as the Registrar or as a Deputy Registrar.

''(5) A person who holds an appointment to act as the Registrar or as a
Deputy Registrar may resign his appointment by writing under his hand
delivered to the Minister.

''(6) The validity of an act done by a person appointed to act as the
Registrar or as a Deputy Registrar shall not be questioned in any proceeding
on a ground arising from the fact that the occasion for the appointment, or
for him to act under the appointment, had not arisen or that the appointment
had ceased to have effect or the occasion for him to act under the appointment
had passed.''.