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

113: Clerk appoints employees

You could also call this:

"The Clerk chooses who works in their office and those people become officers of the House."

The Clerk can choose the employees they think are necessary to work in their office. You will have a Deputy Clerk who is an employee of the Clerk's office. When someone is appointed to work in the Clerk's office, they become an officer of the House. The Clerk's appointments are temporary until they are reviewed under clause 7 of Schedule 5. This means the appointments might change after the review. You can find more information about the review process in those sections. If you are appointed to work in the Clerk's office, you will be an officer of the House until the review is finished. The Clerk's decision to appoint you is not final until the review is complete. You can check clause 7 of Schedule 5 to see how the review process works.

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112: Office of the Clerk continued, or

"The Office of the Clerk Keeps Working"

114: Clerk is employer and may remove employees, or

"The Clerk is in charge of employees and can decide who stays or leaves their job."

Part 5Clerk and Office of the Clerk
Office of the Clerk: Employment

113Clerk appoints employees

The Clerk may appoint to the Office of the Clerk the employees that the Clerk thinks necessary.
However, the Clerk must appoint, as an employee of the Office of the Clerk, a Deputy Clerk.
A person appointed under this section is an officer of the House.
An appointment under this section is provisional pending the outcome of any review of that appointment under clause 7 of Schedule 5.