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Parliament Act 2025

Clerk and Office of the Clerk - Clerk - Acting Clerk

110: Further matters applying to acting Clerk

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"Rules for someone doing the Clerk's job temporarily"

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If you are acting as the Clerk, you have the power to do the Clerk's jobs. When you do these jobs, it means you are allowed to do them. If the Clerk is away for more than three months, special rules apply. If the Clerk is away for more than three months, you need the Governor-General's approval to keep someone in the job who was already appointed under section 109(2). You also need the Governor-General's approval to appoint someone new under section 109(2). This is what happens when the circumstances described in section 109(1) apply for a long time.

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Part 5Clerk and Office of the Clerk
Clerk: Acting Clerk

110Further matters applying to acting Clerk

  1. If a person appointed to act as Clerk performs a function or duty or exercises a power of the Clerk, the performance of the function or duty or the exercise of the power is conclusive evidence that the person is authorised to perform that function or duty or exercise that power.

  2. If the circumstances described in section 109(1) apply for a period of more than 3 months’ duration,—

  3. no earlier appointment made under section 109(2) may continue except with the approval of the Governor-General; and
    1. no further appointment may be made under section 109(2) except with the approval of the Governor-General.

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