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Fire Rescue Victoria Act 1958
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128 Suspension and removal
(1) The Governor in Council may, on the recommendation of the Minister, suspend the Monitor from office on any of the following grounds—
(c) inability to perform the duties of the office;
(d) any other ground on which the Governor in Council is satisfied that the Monitor is unfit to hold office.
(2) The Minister must cause to be laid before each House of the Parliament a full statement of the grounds of suspension within 7 sitting days of that House after the suspension.
(3) The Monitor must be removed from office by the Governor in Council if each House of the Parliament, within 20 sitting days after the day when the statement is laid before it, declares by resolution that the Monitor ought to be removed from office.
(4) The Governor in Council must remove the suspension and restore the Monitor to office unless each House of the Parliament makes a declaration of the kind specified in subsection (3) within the time specified in that subsection.
(5) If the Monitor is suspended from office under subsection (1), the Monitor is taken not to be the Monitor during the period of suspension.
S. 129 inserted by No. 20/2019 s. 85.