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### sec.34B Deputy chair titles
If an Act establishes an office with a deputy chair title (the statutory title ), a person holding the office may choose to be referred to by the statutory title or another deputy chair title (the alternative title ).
For performing functions and exercising powers, it is irrelevant that the person holding the office uses the alternative title.
In this section—
deputy chair title means the title of deputy chair, deputy chairperson, deputy chairman or deputy chairwoman or another similar title.
s 34B ins 2014 No. 39 s 3
(sec.34B-ssec.1) If an Act establishes an office with a deputy chair title (the statutory title ), a person holding the office may choose to be referred to by the statutory title or another deputy chair title (the alternative title ).
(sec.34B-ssec.2) For performing functions and exercising powers, it is irrelevant that the person holding the office uses the alternative title.
(sec.34B-ssec.3) In this section— deputy chair title means the title of deputy chair, deputy chairperson, deputy chairman or deputy chairwoman or another similar title.