Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies for the nomination of a person or persons for a position or positions on the board under section 16(a) or (b) or 17(a).
(2) The Minister must give the entities who may make the nomination notice stating a reasonable period within which they may nominate the person or persons for the position or positions.
(3) The Minister may in the notice ask the entities to nominate more than the required number of persons for the position or positions.
(4) Subject to subsections (5) and (6), if the entities nominate more than the required number of persons for the position or positions--
(a) the Minister must choose the nominee or nominees for the position or positions from the nominations; and
(b) the person or persons chosen are taken to be the nominee or nominees, under the relevant provision mentioned in subsection (1), for the position or positions.
(5) Subsection (6) applies if--
(a) the entities do not nominate a person or persons for the position or positions within the period stated in the notice; or
(b) the entities nominate a number of persons for the position or positions that is less than the number requested by the Minister under subsection (3); or
(c) the person or any of the persons nominated by the entities are not eligible to be appointed to the position or positions concerned.
(6) The Minister must nominate a person or persons eligible to be appointed to the position or positions and the nomination or nominations are taken to have been made by the entities.
(7) To remove doubt, if subsection (5)(b) applies, it is declared that a nomination under subsection (6) may be of, or include, a person or persons nominated by the entities.