Section 28: Powers included in power to appoint

28. Powers included in power to appoint (1) Where an enactment confers a power or imposes a duty to make an appointment or to constitute or establish any board, tribunal, commission, committee or similar body, the person having the power or duty may also— (a) remove, suspend, dismiss or revoke the appointment of, and reappoint or reinstate, any person appointed in exercise of the power or duty; (b) revoke the appointment, constitution or establishment of, or dissolve, any board, tribunal, commission, committee or similar body appointed, constituted or established, in exercise of the power or duty, and reappoint, reconstitute, or re-establish the board, tribunal, commission, committee or similar body; (c) specify the period for which a person appointed in exercise of the power or duty shall hold the appointment. (2) Where the power or duty of the person to act under subsection (1) is only exercisable on the recommendation, or is subject to the approval or consent, of some other person, the power shall only be exercisable on the recommendation or subject to the approval or consent of that other person. I20 – 11 [Issue 6] Interpretation and General Clauses Act