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AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY ACT 1991 - SECT 15

Vacation of office

  (1)   If a member of the Council (other than an ex officio member):

  (a)   becomes disqualified under section   11 from remaining a member of the Council; or

  (b)   dies; or

  (c)   resigns from membership of the Council; or

  (d)   is absent without leave of the Council from 3 consecutive meetings of the Council; or

  (g)   in the case of a member referred to in paragraph   10(1)(k), (l), (m), (n), (o) or (p)--ceases to be qualified to be elected as mentioned in the paragraph concerned; or

  (i)   becomes a Deputy Vice - Chancellor of the University under section   35; or

  (j)   is or becomes disqualified from managing corporations under Part   2D.6 of the Corporations Act 2001 ; or

  (k)   has, in the Council's opinion formed by resolution passed as mentioned in subsection   ( 1A) or subsection   13(4), breached his or her duties under Subdivision A of Division   3 of Part   2 - 2 of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 as a member of the Council; or

  (l)   is, in the Council's opinion, incapable (other than on a temporary basis) of performing his or her duties;

the member's office becomes vacant.

  (1A)   For the purposes of paragraph   ( 1)(k), the Council forms its opinion by resolution passed at a meeting of the Council if the resolution is passed at the meeting by at least a two - thirds majority of the members of the Council.

  (2)   If a person holding office as a member of the Council referred to in one of the paragraphs of subsection   10(1), other than paragraph   ( a) or (c), is, before otherwise ceasing to hold that office, appointed to the office of:

  (a)   Chancellor; or

  (c)   Vice - Chancellor;

that person ceases, upon being so appointed, to hold that first - mentioned office.



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