24Deputies of members, appointing etc.

24. Deputies of members, appointing etc.

(1) The Minister may, in respect of each member of the Committee other than the Chairman, appoint a person to be deputy to that member and a person so appointed is, in the event of the absence from any meeting of that member, entitled to attend that meeting of the Committee and, when so attending, is deemed to be a member and has all the powers and duties of a member.

(2) If at any time the office of a member becomes vacant, the person who is at that time the deputy of that member is, until the office of that member is filled by the appointment of another person as member, deemed to be a member and has all the powers and duties of a member.

(3) The provisions of section 21(1)(b), (c), (d), (e) and (f), and of section 23, that apply to and in relation to the appointment of a member apply, with any necessary modification, to and in relation to the appointment of the deputy of that member.

[Section 24 amended: No. 56 of 1986 s. 5.]