Courts Service Act, 1998

Staff of Service.

23.—(1) The Board may appoint such number of persons to be members of the staff of the Service as may be approved by the Minister with the consent of the Minister for Finance.

(2) The Board shall determine the grades of staff of the Service and the numbers of staff in each grade as may be approved by the Minister with the consent of the Minister for Finance.

(3) A member of the staff of the Service shall be a civil servant in the Civil Service of the State.

(4) The appropriate authority (within the meaning of the Civil Service Commissioners Act, 1956 , and the Civil Service Regulation Acts, 1956 to 1996) in relation to the staff of the Service shall be the Board.

(5) In this section “civil servant in the Civil Service of the State” means a person holding a position in the Civil Service of the State.