Acting Commissioner or Assistant Commissioner
3 Acting Commissioner or Assistant Commissioner
The Governor may, from time to time, appoint a person to act in the office of a Commissioner or an Assistant Commissioner during the illness or absence of the Commissioner or Assistant Commissioner, and the person, while so acting, has all the functions of the Commissioner or Assistant Commissioner and is taken to be the Commissioner or Assistant Commissioner.
The Governor may, at any time, remove a person from the office to which the person was appointed under this clause.
A person while acting under this clause is entitled to be paid such remuneration (including travelling and subsistence allowances) as the Governor may from time to time determine.
For the purposes of this clause—
a vacancy in the office of a Commissioner or an Assistant Commissioner is to be regarded as an absence from office of a Commissioner or Assistant Commissioner, and
an Assistant Commissioner is to be regarded as absent from office as an Assistant Commissioner during any period when the Assistant Commissioner acts in the office of a Commissioner pursuant to an appointment under this clause.
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