Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) One of the Directors is to be appointed to be the Chairperson of the Board and another of them to be the Deputy Chairperson of the Board.
(2) The first appointment of the Chairperson and the first appointment of the Deputy Chairperson are to be made by the Minister.
(3) Subsequent appointments are to be made by the Board.
(4) Subject to subsection (5), a Director appointed to be the Chairperson or Deputy Chairperson is to be so appointed for such period not exceeding 4 years as is set out in the instrument of his or her appointment.
(5) In making an appointment under subsection (1) and in fixing the period of such an appointment, the Minister or the Board, as the case may be, must try to ensure, as far as is reasonably practicable, that:
(a) the Chairperson and the Deputy Chairperson are appointed from different categories of Directors; and
(b) the offices of Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson are rotated every 4 years between the two categories of Directors.
(6) For the purposes of subsection (5), employee - representative Directors constitute one category of Directors and employer - representative Directors constitute another category of Directors.