PARLIAMENTARY STAFFS

(a) in the case of the Senate, consist of the President, the Leader of the Senate, and one other Senator nominated by the Minister of Finance ; and

(b) in the case of the House of Representatives, consist of the Speaker, the Leader of the House, and the Minister of Finance or, if the Minister of Finance is also the Leader of the House, one other Member of the House nominated by the Prime Minister.

(a) for the conditions of service of such members, including conditions as to the payment of salaries, rent allowances and other allowances, the grant of increments and leave, the age of compulsory retirement and pensions ; and

(b) for the payment of salary or other remuneration to those who act or officiate for such members.

(a) for all matters relating to the discipline of members of the staff and for disciplinary action against such members ;

(b) for the interdiction, punishment and dismissal of such members for contraventions of departmental regulations ; and

(c) generally for the administration of the office and the regulation and control of the work and conduct of such members.

(1) The President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives may, with the concurrence of the Minister of Finance declare any post on the staff of the Clerk to the Senate or the House of Representatives, as the case may be, to be a pensionable post with effect from such date as may be specified in the declaration ; the date so specified may be any date prior to the commencement of this Act.

(2) The Minutes on Pensions and the Widows’ and Orphans’ Pension Fund Ordinance shall, subject to any matter provided by or under any of the other provisions of this Act relating to retirement or pensions, apply to and in relation to the holder of any post declared under subsection (1) to be a pensionable post in like manner as though such holder were a public servant or a public officer, as the case may be.

(3) Where the holder of a post on the staff of the Clerk to each Chamber which is declared under subsection (1) to be a pensionable post was, prior to his appointment to that post-

and his service in such post or posts and his service on the staff of the Clerk to the Chamber were continuous, then the service of such holder in each such post shall be deemed to be service in a pensionable post for the purposes of the Minutes on Pensions ; and those Minutes shall apply accordingly.

(4) Where any post on the staff of the Clerk; to each Chamber has been declared under subsection (1) to be a pensionable post, the provisions of subsections (2) and (3) of this section shall apply to and in relation to every person who had held that post notwithstanding that he may have retired therefrom before the commencement of this Act.

(5) The word ” post” in section 26 of the Public Service Provident Fund Ordinance shall be deemed to include any post in the cadre of the staff of the Clerk to each Chamber ; and where the Secretary to the Treasury, by Order under that section made with the concurrence of the Clerk to that Chamber, adds any post in the cadre of such staff to the Schedule to that Ordinance, the provisions of that Ordinance shall apply in the case of the holder of the post so added as though he were a non-pensionable employee in the service of the Government.

(6) In this section, references to a post on the staff of the Clerk to each Chamber shall be deemed to include references to the office of Clerk to each Chamber.