Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2014A00130:clause:1_45
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2014A00130
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 45
Character Range: 17167–18819

45  Transitional—Chief Executive Officer

Scope
(1) This item applies if a person (the substantive appointee) held office as the Chief Commissioner immediately before the commencement of this item.

Continuity of substantive appointee's role as Chief Executive Officer
(2) The substantive appointee is the Chief Executive Officer throughout the period (the transition period):
 (a) starting at the commencement of this item; and
 (b) ending when the substantive appointee ceases to hold office as the Chief Commissioner.

Acting Chief Commissioner
(3) If a person (the acting appointee) is acting as the Chief Commissioner at any time during the transition period, then, while the acting appointee is so acting:
 (a) the acting appointee has and may exercise all the powers, and must perform all the functions and duties, of the Chief Executive Officer; and
 (b) the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011 (as amended by this Part), and any other law of the Commonwealth, applies in relation to the acting appointee as if the acting appointee were the Chief Executive Officer.

Other matters
(4) Sections 154A to 154K of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011 (as amended by this Part) have no effect during the transition period.
(5) However, subitem (4) does not prevent the making of an appointment during the transition period under section 154A of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011 (as amended by this Part) if the appointment takes effect after the end of the transition period.

Part 6—Notifications of decisions etc.

Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011