Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866:section:193:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00866
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 193 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 1764102–1766419

in the capacity of Acting President.
 (9) For the purpose of payment of allowances under paragraph (8)(a) to a person appointed under subsection (2), the duties appertaining to the office of Secretary of the Department of Veterans' Affairs shall be deemed to include the duties appertaining to the office of commissioner and to the office of President of the Commission.
 (10) The appointment of a commissioner under this section ceases to have effect if the commissioner resigns the appointment by writing signed by the commissioner and delivered to the Governor‑General.
 (11) While a commissioner is acting in the offices to which this section applies, the commissioner has, and may exercise, all the powers, and shall perform all the functions, of the holder of each of those offices.
 (12) The validity of anything done by or in relation to a commissioner appointed under this section shall not be called in question on the ground that the occasion for the commissioner's appointment had not arisen, that there is a defect or irregularity in or in connection with the commissioner's appointment, that the commissioner's appointment (not being an appointment to act during vacancies in both of the offices to which this section applies) had ceased to have effect or that the occasion for the commissioner to act had not arisen or had ceased.
 (13) The Governor‑General may appoint a person who holds an appointment as acting commissioner under section 191 to act in both the offices to which this section applies as if the reference in subsection (2) of this section to a commissioner (first occurring) included a reference to a person holding an appointment as an acting commissioner under section 191 and, if the Governor‑General does so:
 (a) subsections (3) to (12), inclusive, of this section apply to and in relation to the person as if the references in those subsections to a commissioner included references to an acting commissioner; and
 (b) without limiting the application of those subsections in accordance with paragraph (a) of this subsection, the person so appointed is not entitled to act in those offices in pursuance of the appointment under subsection (2) of this section at any time when the person is not acting in an office of commissioner in pursuance of an appointment under section 191.