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National Occupational Health and Safety Commission Act 1985
16AActing Chief Executive Officer
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#### 16A Acting Chief Executive Officer
(1) The Minister may appoint a person to act in the office of Chief Executive Officer:
(a) during a vacancy in that office, whether or not an appointment has previously been made to that office; or
(b) during any period when the person holding that office is absent from duty or from Australia or is, for any other reason, unable to perform the functions of that office.
(1A) A person appointed to act during a vacancy must not continue so to act for more than 12 months.
(1B) Where the office of Chief Executive Officer becomes vacant when a person is acting in the office, the person may continue so to act until the Minister otherwise directs, the vacancy is filled or a period of 12 months from the date on which the vacancy occurs ends, whichever first happens.
(2) The validity of anything done by or in relation to a person purporting to act in the office of Chief Executive Officer shall not be called in question on the ground that the occasion for the appointment had not arisen, that there was a defect or irregularity in or in connection with the appointment, that the appointment had ceased to have effect or that the occasion for the person to act had not arisen or had ceased.