Filling casual vacancies
621 Filling casual vacancies
An organisation’s rules may provide for filling a casual vacancy in an office for the organisation.
However, the rules must not allow the filling of a casual vacancy other than by ordinary election, if the unexpired part of the term of the office for the organisation is longer than the greater of—
1 year; or
three-quarters of the term of the office.
If a person fills a casual vacancy in an office for an organisation under this section, the person is taken to have been elected to the office.
In this section—
term, of the office, means the period for which the person last elected to the office by an ordinary election, other than by an ordinary election to fill a casual vacancy, may hold the office without being re-elected.
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