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Financial Intelligence Centre Act, 2001 (Act No. 38 of 2001)

Chapter 1 : Financial Intelligence Centre

11. Staff

 

(1) The staff of the Centre consists of—
(a) the Director; and
(b) persons appointed as employees of the Centre by the Director.

 

(2) An employee of an organ of state may be seconded to the Centre by agreement between the Centre and such organ of state.

 

(3) Staff members referred to in subsection (1)(b) and persons seconded to the Centre in terms of subsection (2) perform their duties subject to the control and directions of the Director.

 

(4) If an officer or employee in the public service is seconded to the Centre, the period of his or her service with the Centre must be calculated as part of and continuous with his or her employment in the public service, for purposes of leave, pension and any other condition of service.

 

(5) The provisions of any pension law applicable to an officer or employee referred to in subsection (4) or, in the event of his or her death, to his or her dependants, which are not inconsistent with this section, must, with the necessary changes, continue so to apply.

 

(6) No person seconded to the Centre or employed by the Centre to perform any of the functions of the Centre may strike or induce or conspire with any other member of the staff of the Centre to strike.

 

(7) The services of the Centre, for the purposes of the application of Chapter IV of the Labour Relations Act, 1995 (Act No. 66 of 1995), are deemed, to have been designated as an essential service in terms of section 71 of that Act.

 

(8) All other conditions of service of staff of the Centre are as determined in terms of this Act.