Section 6 of the Principal Act is amended as follows:

(a) by omitting from subsection (1)(k) "Tourism Council of Australia (Tasmania Branch)" and substituting "Tourism Council of Tasmania" ;

(b) by inserting the following subsections after subsection (1B) :

(1C)  The Minister may appoint a State Service officer or State Service employee employed in the Department, or having knowledge or expertise in relation to the State's historic cultural heritage, as an alternate member for the member referred to in subsection (1)(b) .

(1D)  The alternate member is to act as a member of the Heritage Council only if the member referred to in subsection (1)(b) is –

(a) absent from a meeting of the Heritage Council; or

(b) incapable of acting as a member of the Heritage Council.

(1E)  If the alternate member acts as a member of the Heritage Council –

(a) he or she may exercise all the powers of the member for whom he or she is an alternate; and

(b) all things done or omitted to be done by the alternate member are as valid, and have the same consequences, as if they had been done or omitted to be done by the member for whom he or she is an alternate.