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LAW REFORM COMMISSION ACT 1967 - SECT 9
Removal and vacation of office
9 Removal and vacation of office
(1) The Governor may remove a commissioner, being the holder of a judicial
office, from office upon the address of both Houses of Parliament, but not
otherwise.
(2) The Governor may remove a commissioner (not being the holder
of a judicial office) from office: (a) for inability, misbehaviour or failure
to comply with the terms and conditions of employment as a commissioner,
(b)
if the commissioner, being a full-time commissioner, engages, except in so far
as the Minister otherwise approves in writing, in any paid employment outside
the duties of the office,
(c) if the commissioner becomes bankrupt, applies
to take the benefit of any law for the relief of bankrupt or insolvent
debtors, compounds with his or her creditors or makes an assignment of his or
her remuneration for their benefit,
(d) if the commissioner becomes a
temporary patient, a continued treatment patient, a protected person or an
incapable person within the meaning of the Mental Health Act 1958 or a person
under detention under Part 7 of that Act, or
(e) if the commissioner is
convicted in New South Wales of a crime or an offence which is punishable by
imprisonment for 12 months or upwards, or the commissioner is convicted
elsewhere than in New South Wales of a crime or an offence which, if committed
in New South Wales, would be a crime or an offence so punishable.
(2A) A
commissioner may resign his or her office by writing under his or her hand
addressed to the Governor.
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