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Parliament Act 2025

Clerk and Office of the Clerk - Office of the Clerk - Employment

112: Clerk appoints employees

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"The Clerk chooses staff to work in their office."

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The Clerk can choose the employees they think are necessary to work in their office. You will be considered an officer of the House if you are appointed to work in the Clerk's office. Your appointment might be reviewed under clause 7 of Schedule 5, and it is provisional until that review is finished.

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Office of the Clerk: Employment

112Clerk appoints employees

  1. The Clerk may appoint to the Office of the Clerk the employees that the Clerk thinks necessary.

  2. However, the Clerk must appoint, as an employee of the Office of the Clerk, a Deputy Clerk.

  3. A person appointed under this section is an officer of the House.

  4. An appointment under this section is provisional pending the outcome of any review of that appointment under clause 7 of Schedule 5.

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