Inspectors, officers and employees
18The licensing authority may appoint such inspectors as it may determine to perform such functions as are assigned to them by or under this Part of this Act.
19The licensing authority may appoint a secretary and such other officers, and take into their employment such other persons, as it may determine.
20The terms and conditions of appointments under paragraphs 18 and 19 above shall require the approval of the Secretary of State and the consent of the Treasury.
21The licensing authority shall, as regards such of its inspectors, officers and employees as with the approval of the Secretary of State and the consent of the Treasury it may determine, pay to or in respect of them such pensions, allowances or gratuities (including pensions, allowances or gratuities by way of compensation for loss of employment), or provide and maintain for them such pension schemes (whether contributory or not), as may be so determined.
22If an inspector, officer or employee of the licensing authority—
(a)is a participant in any pension scheme applicable to that employment, and
(b)becomes a member of the licensing authority,
he may, if the Secretary of State with the consent of the Treasury so determines, be treated for the purposes of the pension scheme as if his service as a member of the licensing authority were service as an employee of the licensing authority, whether or not any benefits are to be payable to or in respect of him by virtue of paragraph 10 or 11 above.