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ELECTRICITY CORPORATIONS ACT 2005 - SECT 8

8 .         Boards of directors

        (1)         A corporation is to have a board of directors comprising not less than 4, nor more than 6, persons appointed by the Governor on the nomination of the Minister.

        (2)         The chief executive officer of a corporation may be a director of the corporation.

        (3)         A member of staff of a corporation is not to be a director of the corporation.

        (4)         In making nominations for appointment to the board of a corporation the Minister is to ensure that —

            (a)         each nomination is made only after consultation with the board; and

            (b)         in the case of an appointment to the board of the Regional Power Corporation, a nominee is a person ordinarily resident in a part of the State that is not served by the South West interconnected system so far as is necessary for the majority of the directors of the corporation, at the time of the appointment, to be persons so resident.

        (5)         Where a vacancy occurs in the membership of a board, the board may recommend a candidate to the Minister.

        (6)         Subsection (4)(a) does not apply — 

            (a)         to the initial appointments to a board; or

            (b)         where the nominee was recommended by a board under subsection (5).



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