The constitution and laws of Barbados
Personal staff of Governor - General
31. 1. Parliament may prescribe the offices that are to constitute the
personal staff of the Governor - General, the salaries and allowances that are
to be paid to the members of the staff and the other sums that are to be paid
in respect of the expenditure attaching to the office of Governor - General.
2. Any salaries or other sums prescribed under subsection (1) are hereby
charged on and shall be paid out of the Consolidated Fund.
3. Subject to the provisions of subsection (4), power to make appointments to
the offices for the time being prescribed under subsection (1) as offices that
are to constitute the personal staff of the Governor - General, and to remove
and to exercise disciplinary control over persons holding or acting in any such
office, is hereby vested in the Governor - General acting in his discretion.
4. The Governor - General, acting in his discretion, may appoint to any of the
offices prescribed under subsection (1) such public officers as he may select
from a list submitted by the Public Service Commission, but -
a. the provisions of subsection (3) shall apply in relation to an officer so
appointed as respects his service on the personal staff of the Governor -
General but not as respects his service as a public officer;
b. an officer so appointed shall not, during his continuance on the personal
staff of the Governor - General, perform the functions of any public office;
and
c. an officer so appointed may at any time be appointed by the Governor -
General, if the Public Service Commission so recommend to assume or resume the
functions of a public office and he shall thereupon vacate his office on the
personal staff of the Governor - General, but the Governor - General may, in
his discretion, decline to release the officer for that appointment.
5. All offices prescribed under subsection (1) as offices that are to
constitute the personal staff of the Governor - General shall, for the purposes
of Chapter Viii, be deemed to be public offices.
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