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National Research Foundation Act, 1998 (Act No. 23 of 1998)

13. Staff of Foundation

 

(1) Subject to subsection (2)—
(a) the chief executive officer may on such conditions as the Board may determine appoint such employees, or receive on secondment such persons, as are necessary to enable the Foundation to perform its functions, but
(b) the Board must on such conditions as it may determine appoint, or receive on secondment, a head for each division.

 

(2) The Foundation must pay to its staff out of its funds such remuneration, allowances, subsidies and other benefits as the Board may determine in accordance with a system approved for that purpose by the Minister with the concurrence of the Minister of Finance.

 

(3)

(a) The chief executive officer may—
(i) with the consent of an employee; and
(ii) on such conditions as the Board may determine,

second the employee either for a particular service or for a period of time to the service of a department of State, the government of any province, territory or country, organisation or institution within or outside the Republic.

[Section 13(3)(a) substituted by section 16 of Notice No. 637, GG 42441, dated 6 May 2019]

(b) That employee’s rights, privileges and benefits by virtue of his or her conditions of service as an employee of the Foundation may not be adversely affected by the secondment.