Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A02005:body:0:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A02005
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Character Range: 2440–4930

following section is inserted in Part III:

Acting appointments
"44a. (1) The Minister may appoint a person who is an officer or employee for the purposes of the Public Service Act 1922 to act as the Registrar or as a Deputy Registrar during any period, or during all periods, when—
    (a) the Registrar or that Deputy Registrar, as the case may be, is absent from duty or from Australia or is, for any other reason, unable to perform the duties and functions of his office; or
    (b) there is a vacancy in the office of Registrar or in that office of Deputy Registrar, as the case may be.
"(2) A person acting as the Registrar or as a Deputy Registrar by reason of a vacancy in the office of Registrar or of that Deputy Registrar shall not continue so to act after the expiration of 12 months after the occurrence of the vacancy.

"(3) A person appointed to act as the Registrar or as a Deputy Registrar has, while acting as the Registrar or as that Deputy Registrar, as the case may be, all the duties and functions of the Registrar or of that Deputy Registrar, and references in this Act to the Registrar or to a Deputy Registrar shall—
    (a) if a person is acting as the Registrar—be read as a reference to the person so acting; or
    (b) if a person is acting as a Deputy Registrar—be read as including a reference to the person so acting.
"(4) The Minister may at any time terminate an appointment of a person to act as the Registrar or as a Deputy Registrar.
"(5) A person who holds an appointment to act as the Registrar or as a Deputy Registrar may resign his appointment by writing under his hand delivered to the Minister.
"(6) The validity of an act done by a person appointed to act as the Registrar or as a Deputy Registrar shall not be questioned in any proceeding on a ground arising from the fact that the occasion for the appointment, or for him to act under the appointment, had not arisen or that the appointment had ceased to have effect or the occasion for him to act under the appointment had passed.".

Contracts, arrangements or understandings in relation to prices
8. (1) Section 45a of the Principal Act is amended by omitting paragraph (b) of sub-section (2) and substituting the following paragraph:
    "(b) the joint supply by the parties to the joint venture of services in pursuance of the joint venture, or the supply by the parties to the joint venture in proportion to their respective interests in the joint venture of services in pursuance of, and