8Interim chief executive officer

8 Interim chief executive officer

(1)  In this section –

interim chief executive officer means the person appointed –

(a) on 3 December 2012; and

(b) pursuant to and in accordance with the provisions of section 31 of the State Service Act 2000 as the chief executive officer of TasTAFE; and

(c) by the Premier.

(2)  The interim chief executive officer is taken to have been appointed as the chief executive officer of TasTAFE under section 66 of the Training and Workforce Development Act 2013 for the term and on the conditions, including remuneration, specified in his or her instrument of appointment to the office of chief executive officer of TasTAFE.

(3)  Any act done by the interim chief executive officer for the purposes of –

(a) preparing for the establishment of, or establishing, TasTAFE; or

(b) bringing into operation, or giving full effect to, this Act or the TasTAFE Act –

is not invalid by reason only of the fact that this Act or the TasTAFE Act had not commenced or been enacted and, if appropriate, is taken to have been done by the chief executive officer of TasTAFE under this Act or the TasTAFE Act.