Institutional Burials Act 2022
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Office of Director and staff of Director | ||
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12. (1) There shall be attached to a Director an office (in this Act referred to as the “Office”) which shall assist the Director in the performance of his or her functions. | ||
(2) The Office shall be under the management and control of the Director. | ||
(3) Subject to subsections (5) and (6), a Director may, subject to the approval of the relevant Minister given with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, appoint such and so many persons to be members of staff of the Director for such period and on such terms and conditions (including terms and conditions relating to remuneration, allowances and superannuation) and at such grade as the Director may determine. | ||
(4) Subject to subsections (5) and (6), a Director may, with the consent of the relevant Minister, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and the public body concerned, second a member of staff of a public body with his or her consent to be a member of staff of the Director for the duration of the secondment. | ||
(5) A person shall not be appointed to be a member of staff under subsection (3) or seconded under subsection (4) for a period exceeding the initial period. | ||
(6) The period of appointment or secondment, as the case may be, may, with the consent of the member of staff concerned and, in the case of a member standing seconded, with the consent of the public body from which he or she stands seconded, be extended but the period of extension shall not exceed— | ||
(a) the initial period, or | ||
(b) if the period of time for which the office is to continue in operation stands extended or further extended by order under section 9 (2), that period as so extended or further extended. | ||
(7) Where a relevant Minister makes an order under section 98 (2), an appointment or secondment, or extension of such appointment or secondment, as the case may be, under this section shall cease on the day appointed as the dissolution day in that order. | ||
(8) In this section, “initial period” has the same meaning as it has in section 9 . |