CHAPTER
41
THE PRIME MINISTER'S PERSONAL STAFF |
ARRANGEMENT OF
SECTIONS |
SECTION |
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Personal staff establishment to Prime Minister. |
Application of provisions of Public Service Act
to persons on personal staff. |
Conditions of service of public officer on
personal staff. |
Offices on personal staff establishment not
public offices other than for pension purposes. |
Emoluments of persons on personal staff. |
Amendment of the Schedule. |
SCHEDULE - Personal Staff Establishment to the Office of
the Prime Minister. |
CHAPTER 41 |
THE PRIME
MINISTER'S PERSONAL STAFF |
An Act to
make provision for a personal staff establishment to the office of Prime
Minister and for the payment to members of that staff of salaries and
allowances provided by parliament. | 6 of 1984
S.I. 17/1993
S.I. 67/1994 |
[Commencement 31st
May, 1984] |
1. This Act may be cited as The Prime Minister's
Personal Staff Act. | Short title. |
2. (1) There shall be a personal staff establishment to
the Office of Prime Minister consisting of the several offices and positions
specified in the Schedule. | Personal staff establishment to Prime Minister. |
(2) Subject to
section 4, power to make appointments to the offices and positions specified in
the
Schedule and to remove and to exercise disciplinary control over persons
holding or acting in any such office or position is hereby vested in the Prime
Minister. |
3. (1) Sections 5 to 8, sections 15 to 17 and section 19
of the
Public Service Act, shall, subject to the provisions of subsection (2), apply
to all persons appointed to the offices or positions specified in the Schedule
as if such persons were public officers. | Application of provisions of Public Service Act to
persons on personal staff. |
(2) The Prime
Minister shall exercise in relation to any holder of those offices or positions
specified in the Schedule all such or like powers as are vested in the
competent authority contemplated by those provisions of the Public
Service Act mentioned in subsection (1). |
4. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in section
3, in the case of any public officer who has been selected for an appointment
to the personal staff establishment from a list submitted by the Public Service
Commission- | Conditions of service of public officer on personal
staff. |
(a) the
exercise by the Prime Minister of the powers mentioned in section 3(2) shall
apply only to the tenure by that officer of his appointment on the personal
staff establishment; |
(b) an officer
so appointed shall not during continuance on the personal staff of the Prime
Minister perform the functions of any public office; and |
(c) an officer
so appointed may at any time be released by the Prime Minister, if the
Governor-General acting on the advice of the Public Service Commission so
recommends, to assume or resume the functions of a public officer and he shall
thereupon vacate his office on the personal staff establishment. |
5. (1) Save as mentioned in sections 3 and 4 and in
subsection (2) of this section, the several offices and positions specified in
the Schedule shall not be regarded as public offices for the purposes of the
Constitution. | Offices on personal staff establishment not public
offices other than for pension purposes. |
(2) Service in any
office or position to which subsection (1) applies shall be deemed public
service for the purposes of the Pensions Act unless it is
otherwise provided in any contract pursuant to which the appointment to that
office or position was effected. |
6. Subject to section 3, the salaries and allowances
payable to the holders of any office or position mentioned in the Schedule
shall be paid out of such sums as Parliament may from time to time appropriate
for that purpose. | Emoluments of persons on personal staff. |
7. The Governor-General may by order amend the Schedule. | Amendments of the Schedule. |
SCHEDULE (Section 2) |
PERSONAL STAFF
ESTABLISHMENT TO THE OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER |
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PART
I
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2 Senior Executive Assistants
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1 Senior Personal Assistant
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1 Personal Assistant
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1 Administrative Assistant
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PART II
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1 Maid
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1 Laundress
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1 Gardener
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