16(1)The Commissioner may appoint staff.
(2)Those staff are appointed on such terms and conditions as the Commissioner, with the approval of the Parliamentary corporation, determines.
17(1)The Commissioner may, with the approval of the Parliamentary corporation, pay or make arrangements for the payment of pensions, allowances and gratuities to, or in respect of, any person who is or has been a member of the Commissioner’s staff.
(2)Those arrangements may include—
(a)making payments towards the provision of those pensions, allowances and gratuities,
(b)providing and maintaining schemes for the payment of those pensions, allowances and gratuities.
(3)The reference in sub-paragraph (1) to pensions, allowances and gratuities includes pensions, allowances and gratuities by way of compensation for loss of office.
18(1)The Commissioner may authorise any person to exercise any of the Commissioner’s functions (and to such extent) as the Commissioner determines.
(2)The giving of authority under sub-paragraph (1) in relation to a function does not—
(a)affect the Commissioner’s responsibility for the exercise of the function,
(b)prevent the Commissioner from performing the function.