Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) The Governor in Council, on the advice of the Minister, may suspend the Information Commissioner from office on any ground on which the Governor in Council is satisfied that the Commissioner is unfit to hold office.
(2) The Minister must cause a full statement of the grounds of suspension to be presented to each House of Parliament within 7 sitting days of that House after the suspension.
(3) The Information Commissioner must be removed from office by the Governor in Council if each House of Parliament, within 20 sitting days after the day on which the statement is presented to it, declares by resolution that the Commissioner ought to be removed from office.
(4) The Governor in Council must remove the suspension and restore the Information Commissioner to office unless each House makes a declaration of the kind specified in subsection (3) within the time specified in that subsection.
(5) If the Information Commissioner is suspended from office under subsection (1), the Information Commissioner is taken not to be the Information Commissioner during the period of suspension.
S. 6O inserted by No. 20/2017 s. 6.