Acting FOI Act Information Commissioner to continue as Acting Information Access Deputy Commissioner
38 Acting FOI Act Information Commissioner to continue as Acting Information Access Deputy Commissioner
If an appointment of a person to act in the office of FOI Act Information Commissioner is in force immediately before transition day under the Freedom of Information Act 1992 section 59, the appointment is, on and from transition day until the expiry of the period of that appointment, taken to be an appointment of the person to act in the office of Information Access Deputy Commissioner under section 11.
If the appointment to act in the office of FOI Act Information Commissioner is expressed to have effect only in the circumstances specified in the instrument of appointment, subsection (1) applies whether or not those circumstances are applicable immediately before transition day.
Subsection (1) does not prevent the termination of the appointment under section 24(2)(a).
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