County Management Act, 1940

Control, etc., of officers and servants of a county council or an elective body.

20.—(1) The officers and servants of the council of a county or of an elective body shall perform their duties as such officers and servants in accordance with such directions as the county manager for such county or the manager for such elective body (as the case may be) may from time to time give either generally or in regard to the performance of any particular duty or any particular class or classes of duties or in regard to the performance of any such duty by any particular officer or servant, and such county manager shall have and exercise control and full supervision of and over such officers and servants and any and every act or thing done or to be done by them in their capacity as officers and servants of such council or body, as the case may be.

(2) Subject to any orders or regulations made by the Minister under any Act and for the time being in force in relation to the service, remuneration, privileges, or superannuation (as the case may be) of the officers and servants of a local authority, the county manager for a county or the manager for an elective body shall consider and decide all such questions as may from time to time arise in relation to the service, remuneration, privileges and superannuation of the officers and servants of the council of such county or of such elective body, as the case may be.