a) The Board shall ensure that a person is appointed as public officer.

b) The first public officer shall be the person who completed the application for incorporation of the Association.

c) The Board may at any time remove the public officer and appoint a new public officer provided the person appointed is 18 years-of-age or older and a resident of New South Wales.

d) The public officer shall be deemed to have vacated their position in the following circumstances:

1. death;
2. resignation;
3. removal by the Board of Director's or at a general meeting;
4. bankruptcy or financial insolvency;
5. mental illness or incapacity or;
6. residency outside New South Wales.

e) When a vacancy occurs in the position of public officer the Board shall within 14 days notify the Department of Fair Trading by the prescribed form and appoint a new public officer.

f) The public officer is required to notify the Department of Fair Trading by the prescribed form in the following circumstances:

1. appointment (within 14 days);
2. change of residential address (within 14 days);
3. a change in the Association's objects or rules (within one month);
4. of the Association's financial affairs (within one month after the annual general meeting);
5. a change of the Association's name (within one month)

g) The public officer may be an office bearer, Board of Director or any other person regarded as suitable for the position by the Board.

h) The public officer shall keep a register of members of the Board which must:

1. contain the name and residential address of each Board member and the date on which they became a member of the Board;
2. be updated within one month of any change taking place; and
3. be made available for inspection by any person, at all reasonable hours and free of charge.

Constitution 8 September 1998