7. Deputies---(1) The Director-General of Health may from time to time
 appoint a registered medical practitioner who is an officer of the
 Department of Health to attend a meeting of the Council as his deputy in
 his absence.

   (2) A person who is a member of the Council by virtue of holding
 office in or being a member of a body specified in any of paragraphs
 (b), (c), and (j) (iv) of section 3 (2) of this Act may from time to
 time appoint a member of that body to attend a meeting of the Council as
 his deputy in his absence.

   (3) A member of the Council specified in any of paragraphs (d) to (g)
 of section 3 ((2) of this Act may from time to time appoint a member of
 the teaching staff of his faculty or division, as the case requires, to
 attend a meeting of the Council as his deputy in his absence.

   (4) The regional director of the Waikato region or the Central region
 may from time to time appoint a member of his regional executive
 committee to attend a meeting of the Council as his deputy in his
 absence.

   (5) Where a deputy appointed under any of subsections (1) to (4) of
 this section attends a meeting of the Council in the absence of the
 person he represents, he shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to
 be a member of the Council, except that he shall not be deemed to be the
 chairman or deputy chairman by reason of the fact that he represents the
 chairman or deputy chairman.