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Staff of Tribunal
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252. (1) The Minister may appoint such and so many persons to be members of staff of the Tribunal (in this Part referred to as “members of staff”) as he or she considers necessary to assist the Tribunal in the performance of its functions and such members of staff shall receive such remuneration and be subject to such other terms and conditions of service as the Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, determine.
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(2) Members of staff shall be civil servants within the meaning of the Civil Service Regulation Acts 1956 to 2005.
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(3) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the Minister may appoint in writing a person who is appointed under this section as a member of staff to be a designated member of staff for the purposes of this Part.
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(4) Subject to subsection (6), a designated member of staff shall, at the direction of an Appeals Officer, support Appeals Officers in the transaction of the business assigned to Appeals Officers under this Act.
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(5) A designated member of staff may, in the performance of the function under subsection (4), do any of the following—
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(a) such preparatory and procedural work, including research, in relation to an appeal, as an Appeals Officer may require, and
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(b) all such other things as an Appeals Officer may consider conducive to the transaction of the business assigned to him or her under this Act.
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(6) No function conferred on or power vested in a designated member of staff under this Act shall be exercised so as to interfere with the conduct of that part of the business of the Tribunal required by law to be transacted by or before an Appeals Officer or to impugn the independence of an Appeals Officer in the determination of an appeal.
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