(1) The Governor may, in respect of each appointed member, appoint a person as deputy of that member and a person so appointed has, in the event of the absence of the member, all the powers of that member during his absence.

(1a) The member referred to in section 6 (1) (b) shall nominate a senior officer of the Department for the Arts to act for him as a member at any meeting which he is unable to attend, and while so attending the person so nominated has all of the functions and entitlements of that member.

(2) No appointment of and no act done by a deputy in that capacity shall be questioned on the ground that the occasion for his appointment had not arisen or had ceased.

[Section 10 amended by No. 75 of 1987 s.13.]