Victorian Numbered Acts

FIRE SERVICES COMMISSIONER ACT 2010 (NO. 73 OF 2010) - SECT 9

    (1)     The Governor in Council may suspend the Fire Services Commissioner from office on any of the following grounds—

        (a)     misconduct;

        (b)     neglect of duty;

        (c)     inability to perform the duties of the office;

        (d)     any other ground on which the Governor in Council is satisfied that the Fire Services Commissioner is unfit to hold office.

    (2)     The Minister must cause to be laid before each House of Parliament a full statement of the grounds of suspension within 7 sitting days of that House after the suspension.

    (3)     The Fire Services Commissioner must be removed from office by the Governor in Council if each House of Parliament within 20 sitting days after the day when the statement is laid before it declares by resolution that the Fire Services Commissioner ought to be removed from office.

    (4)     The Governor in Council must remove the suspension and restore the Fire Services Commissioner to office unless each House makes a declaration of the kind specified in subsection (3) within the time specified in that subsection.

    (5)     If the Fire Services Commissioner is suspended from office under subsection (1), he or she is deemed not to be the Fire Services Commissioner during the period of suspension.