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of Australia - except at the request of the Governor‑General or the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth;

            (ii) in the event of the absence of the Governor‑General out of Australia and of the death, incapacity or absence out of Australia of the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth - except at the request of the Governor‑General, the Deputy Prime Minister or the next most senior Minister of State for the Commonwealth who is in Australia and available to make such a request;

            (iii) in the event of the death, incapacity or removal of the Governor‑General, or in the event of the Governor‑General having absented himself or herself temporarily from office for any reason - except at the request of the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth;  or

            (iv) in the event of the death, incapacity or removal of the Governor‑General, or in the event of the Governor‑General having absented himself or herself temporarily from office for any reason, and of the death, incapacity or absence out of Australia of the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth - except at the request of the Deputy Prime Minister or the next most Senior Minister of State for the Commonwealth who is in Australia and available to make such a request;

(d)      a person so appointed shall not assume the administration of the Government of the Commonwealth unless he or she has taken on that occasion or has previously taken the Oath or Affirmation of Allegiance and the Oath or Affirmation of Office in the presence of the Chief Justice or another Justice of the High Court of Australia;

(e)      a person so appointed shall cease to exercise and perform the powers, functions and authorities of the Governor‑General vested in him or her when a successor to the Governor‑General has taken the prescribed oaths or affirmations and has entered upon the duties of his or her office, or the incapacity or absence out of Australia of the Governor‑General for the time being has ceased, or the Governor‑General has ceased to absent himself or herself from office, as the case may be;  and

(f)       for the purposes of this clause, a reference to absence out of Australia is a reference to absence out of Australia in a geographical sense but does not include absence out of Australia for the purpose of visiting a Territory that is under the administration of the Commonwealth of Australia.

      IV.         In pursuance of section 126 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia –

(a)      We authorise the Governor‑General for the time being, by instrument in writing, to appoint any person, or any persons jointly or severally, to be his or her deputy or deputies within any part of the Commonwealth, to