Public Office (Age Qualification) Act 1985 (Qld)

184 ANNO TRICESIMO QUARTO ELIZABETHAE SECUNDAE REGINAE No. 12 of 1985 An Act to provide with respect to age qualification for holding certain public offices and for related purposes [ASSENTED TO 28TH MARCH, 1985]

Public Office (A ge Qualification) Act 1985, No 1? 185 BE IT ENACTED by the Queen' s Most Excellent Majesty , by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled , and by the authority of the same, as follows:- 1. Short title . This Act may be cited as the Public Office (Age Qualification) Act 1985. 2. Application of Act. This Act applies only to an office provided for by or under an Act specified in the Schedule to which appointment is made by the Governor in Council and in respect of which the holder thereof is not entitled to be paid a salary or wage. 3. Meaning of " the prescribed age". In this Act the expression "the prescribed age" means the age prescribed by the Act or regulation under which an appointment to an office to which this Act applies is to be or has been made as the age at which- (a) a person would, but for this Act, become disqualified for appointment to the office; or (b) the holder of the office would, but for this Act, be required to vacate the office or be deemed to have vacated the office. 4. Age not an automatic bar to holding office. (1) A person is not disqualified from appointment to an office to which this Act applies by reason only of the fact that he has attained the prescribed age. (2) A person who holds an office to which this Act applies- shall not be required to vacate that office; and shall not be taken to have vacated that office, by reason only that he has attained the prescribed age. 5. Procedure on certain appointments . (1) Where a person who is proposed for appointment to an office to which this Act applies- has attained the prescribed age; or if appointed to the office for the maximum term permitted by the Act or regulations under which the appointment is to be made. would attain the prescribed age before the expiration by effluxion of time of that term, that fact shall be brought expressly to the notice of the Governor in Council at the time when the proposal for that person's appointment is submitted to him. (2) Failure to comply with subsection (1) shall not affect any appointment made by the Governor in Council to the office in question.

186 Public Office (Age Qualification) Act 1985, No 12 SCHEDULE Libraries Act 1943-1979 Queensland Cultural Centre Trust Act 1976-1981 Queensland PerformingArts TrustAct 1977-1979 Brisbane Cricket Ground Act 1958-1982 [s. 2]