| (1) | Subject to subsection (2), the Chief Executive Officer— |
| (a) | must appoint such number of employees, within allocated resources available for that purpose, or receive on secondment such number of persons provided to enable the Bureau to perform its functions; |
| (b) | is responsible for the administrative control of the Bureau and for the discipline of the employees and persons contemplated in paragraph (a); and |
| (c) | must ensure compliance with applicable public service and labour legislation. |
| (2) | The employees referred to in subsection (1) must at least have the following specialist expertise: |
| (d) | process chemistry or engineering; and |
| (e) | technical expert knowledge in the waste and environmental resource management fields. |
| (3) | The provisions relating to employment practice contained in the Public Service Act, 1994, the regulations, determinations, deemed determinations contemplated in section 5 (6) of that Act and directives made in terms of that Act apply, except with regard to consideration of scales of remuneration and employment conditions service of the staff referred to in subsection (3). |
| (4) | The Minister must determine, in concurrence with the Minister of Finance, the organisational structure and the scale of remuneration for employees referred to in paragraphs (a) to (e) of subsection (3), which may be different from those of the public service. |
| (5) | A person employed by the Bureau may become a member of the Government Employees’ Pension Fund mentioned in section 2 of the Government Employees Pension Law, 1996 (Proclamation No. 21 of 1996), and is entitled to pension and retirement benefits as if that person were in service in a post classified in a division of the public service. |
| (6) | The Bureau may utilise persons seconded from or transferred from the public service in accordance with the provisions of the Public Service Act, 1994 (Proclamation No. 103 of 1994). |
[Section 34L inserted by section 13 of Act No. 26 of 2014]
