Aboriginal Heritage Regulations 1974

If a Committee member other than a chairperson is unable or unavailable to act because of illness, absence or other cause, the Minister may appoint another person as an alternate member to act temporarily in the member’s place.

If a Committee member is acting as a chairperson under regulation 27(2), the Minister may appoint another person as an alternate member to act in the member’s place while the member is acting as a chairperson.

In regulations 33(1)(b), 35(3), 37(2), 38(3) and (4), 39(1) and (3) and 42(2)(a) a reference to a Committee member includes a reference to an alternate member acting in accordance with an appointment under this regulation.

While acting in accordance with an appointment under this regulation, the alternate member is taken to be, and to have any entitlement of, a Committee member.

An act or omission of an alternate member cannot be questioned on the ground that the occasion for the appointment or acting had not arisen or had ceased.