(1) For each member of the Council appointed under section 9 other than ¾

(a) the Commissioner;

(b) the Chairperson; and

(c) the Deputy Chairperson,

there may be appointed, in the same manner as that member, a deputy member.

(2) A deputy member is entitled, in the absence of the member for whom he is a deputy from a meeting of the Council, to attend that meeting, and when so attending a deputy member has all the powers, functions, entitlements and protection as the member for whom he is deputy.

[Section 9A inserted by No. 47 of 1994 s. 5.]