Appointment of Ports Commissioner and port managers

(1) The Board shall, at such salary and upon such terms and conditions as it may determine, appoint, (a) a Ports Commissioner; (b) such number of port managers as it thinks fit. (2) The Ports Commissioner shall be the chief executive officer of the Authority and shall exercise all the functions entrusted to him by this Act and any regulations, and (whether or not he is a member), shall be present at all meetings of the Board unless he has obtained leave of absence from the Chairperson or is incapacitated by illness or other causes from attendance of such meetings. (3) In the event of the absence of the Ports Commissioner, the Board may, by instrument in writing, appoint any person to act as Ports Commissioner during the period of such absence upon such terms and conditions as it may determine. The person so appointed may exercise all powers and all the duties under this Act to be performed by the Ports Commissioner or as many of such powers and duties as may be specified in such instrument. 17