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Revision as of 14:02, 26 May 2022
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| Office of the Deputy Chair of the Assembly | |
| Style | Mr. Deputy Chair |
| Type | Deputy Chairperson |
| Status | Office Vacant |
| Abbreviation | DCoftA |
| Member of | Assembly of the South Pacific |
| Reports to | Chair of the Assembly |
| Seat | Assembly of the South Pacific |
| Nominator | Chair of the Assembly |
| Appointer | Chair of the Assembly |
| Term length | At the pleasure of the Chair of the Assembly |
| Constituting instrument | Charter of the South Pacific |
| Formation | 28th May 2016 (in current form) |
The Deputy Chair of the Assembly is an official within the Assembly of the South Pacific. The deputy chair's roles compose of assisting the Chair of the Assembly with their day to day tasks of running the assembly. They also assume the position of Chair of the Assembly if the incumbent Chair of the Assembly is absent.
The current Deputy Chair is BlockBuster2K43, they assumed the office of the Deputy Chair on the 26th May 2022.
Election
The Deputy Chair is nominanated and appointed by the Chair of the Assembly. They serve at the pleasure of the Chair and they are able to be removed from their position at any time.
Roles, responsibilities & powers
The Deputy Chair of the Assembly's powers which can be exercised without the Chair's explicit prior approval (albeit with notification to the Chair) are,
- The opening and closing of votes within the Assembly of the South Pacific.
- * Generally including relevant sub-powers (such as slightly editing a bill to comply with formatting before bringing it to vote).
- * Sub-powers that need to be motioned (e.g. waive debate time, cancel voting) if informing the Chair beforehand.
- Approving Leaves of Absence's for Legislators within the South Pacific.
- Approving the requests of political parties to create sub-forums and petitions (With the notification and inforing the Chair beforehand.)
- Archiving inactive and unused discussion threads and polls.
- Fulfilling most writing based projects (RMB updates, Gazette, etc).