37   Acting appointments to executive positions

(1)  The Commissioner may appoint a member of the NSW Police Force to act in an executive position which is vacant or the holder of which is suspended, sick or absent.

(2)  A person, while acting in any such executive position, has all the functions of the holder of the position (but is not to be taken to be an executive officer for the purposes of this Part).

(3)  The Commissioner may, at any time, terminate the appointment of a person to act in any such executive position.

(4)  This section does not prevent the payment of an allowance to a member of the NSW Police Force for exercising all or any of the functions of a position if a person is not appointed to act in the position under this section.