Section 194 — Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986: Appointments

(1) The Governor-General may, in the same instrument: (a) appoint a person, under section 182, to be a commissioner and appoint the person, under section 183, to be the President or Deputy President; or (b) appoint a person, under section 182, to be a commissioner and appoint the person, under section 193, to act in both the offices to which that section applies; and, if the Governor-General does so, the appointment under section 183 or 193, as the case may be, (in this subsection called the second appointment) shall take effect: (c) if a date, being a date after the date on which the appointment under section 182 takes effect, is specified in the instrument of appointment as the date on which the second appointment is to take effect—on the date so specified; or (d) in any other case—immediately after the appointment under section 182 takes effect. (2) The Minister may, in the same instrument, appoint a person, under section 191, (in this subsection called the first appointment) to act in the office of a commissioner and appoint the person, under section 192, (in this subsection called the second appointment) to act in an office to which that section applies and, if the Minister does so, the second appointment shall take effect: (a) if a date, being a date after the date on which the first appointment takes effect, is specified in the instrument of appointment as the date on which the second appointment is to take effect—on the date so specified; or (b) in any other case—immediately after the first appointment takes effect.