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Legislation Act 2019

Interpretation and application of legislation - Exercise of powers in legislation generally

45: Power to appoint person to an office includes related powers

You could also call this:

"Having the power to choose someone for a job also means you can make other decisions about that job."

When you have the power to appoint someone to a job, you also have the power to remove or suspend them from that job. You can reappoint or reinstate someone to the job if you want to. You can also appoint someone else to the job if the person who was doing it has left, died, is absent, or cannot do the job because they are sick or injured, or if you have removed them from the job. You can appoint someone else to the job for a short time or a long time, and they can do all or just some of the tasks. If you want to see how this rule has been used in the past, you can look at s 12 of a previous law.

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Exercise of powers in legislation generally

45Power to appoint person to an office includes related powers

  1. The power to appoint a person to an office includes the power to—

  2. remove or suspend a person from the office:
    1. reappoint or reinstate a person to the office:
      1. appoint (temporarily or permanently, and for all or limited purposes) another person in place of a person who—
        1. has vacated the office voluntarily (for example, by resigning); or
          1. has died; or
            1. is absent temporarily or permanently; or
              1. is incapacitated temporarily or permanently in a way that affects the performance of that person's duty; or
                1. has been removed or suspended from the office.

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