Western Australian Consolidated Acts (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).