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sub-section, to hold the first-mentioned office.".
                                         Sub-section 77 (4)—
                                          Omit the sub-section, substitute the following sub-section:
                                          "(4) If a person who is appointed to hold an office of Permanent Head at a time when he holds another office of Permanent Head ceases for any reason to hold the other office, he thereupon ceases, by force of this sub-section, to hold the first-mentioned office.".
 Public Works Committee Act 1969         Sub-section 18 (3)—
                                          Omit "Transport", substitute "Housing".
                                         Sub-section 18 (8a)—
                                          Omit "Transport", substitute "Housing".
                                         Sub-section 19 (2)—
                                             (a) Omit "of the last preceding section", substitute "of section 18".
                                             (b) Omit "Transport", substitute "Housing".

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Acts                              Amendments
 Remuneration Tribunals Act 1973  Sub-section 3 (1), definition of "Chairman"—
                                   Omit all the words after "appointed", substitute "under sub-section 4a (1)".
                                  New sub-sections 4 (7) and (8)—
                                   After sub-section 4 (6), add the following sub-sections:
                                   "(7) The exercise of the powers, and the performance of the functions, of the Tribunal are not affected by a vacancy in the membership of the Tribunal.
                                   "(8) In this section, 'Chairman' does not include an acting Chairman.".
                                  New section 4a—
                                   After section 4, insert the following section:
                                   Acting Chairman
                                   "4a. (1) The Minister may appoint a member to act as Chairman—
                                      (a) during a vacancy in the office of Chairman; or
                                      (b) during any period, or during all periods, when the Chairman is absent from duty or from Australia or is, for any other reason, unable to perform the functions of his office,
                                   but a person appointed to act during a vacancy shall not continue so to act for more than 12 months.
                                   "(2) An appointment of a person under sub-section (1) may be expressed to have effect only in such circumstances as are specified in the instrument of appointment.
                                   "(3) The Minister may—
                                      (a) determine the terms and conditions of appointment, including fees and allowances, of a person acting as Chairman; and
                                      (b) terminate such an appointment at any time.
                                   "(4) Where a person is acting as Chairman in accordance with paragraph (1) (b) and the office of Chairman becomes vacant while that person is so acting, then, subject to sub-section (2), that person may continue so to act until the Minister otherwise directs, the vacancy is filled or a period of 12 months from the date on which the vacancy occurred expires, whichever first happens.

SCHEDULE 1—continued
Acts  Amendments
       "(5) The appointment of a person to act as Chairman ceases to have effect if he resigns his appointment by writing signed by him and delivered to the Minister.
       "(6) The validity of anything done by a person purporting to act under sub-section (1) shall not be called in question on the ground that the occasion for his