Part 3Licensing trusts, community trusts, and other matters
Licensing trusts: Members
320Minister may appoint deputy of member
This section applies where the Minister is satisfied that a member of a licensing trust is unable through illness, absence, or some other adequate reason to perform his or her duties.
In any case to which this section applies, the Minister may appoint a person to act as deputy for the member, and the person appointed must be a person nominated by the trust or, if the trust fails to nominate a person, a person selected by the Minister at his or her discretion.
There may not be more than 1 deputy in respect of a licensing trust at any one time.
A person appointed as a deputy under this section and acting in that capacity is treated for all purposes as if he or she were a member of the trust.
The validity of the appointment of a person as deputy, and the acts of that person as deputy and of the trust while that person is acting in that capacity, must not be challenged in any proceeding on the basis that—
- there was no ground for making the appointment; or
- the ground for making the appointment had come to an end.