Constitution of The BahamasIn briefLets Parliament set up the Governor-General's personal staff and their pay, and gives the Governor-General control over appointing, removing and disciplining them.
Parliament may prescribe the offices that are to constitute the personal staff of the Governor-General, the salaries and allowances that are to be paid in respect of the expenditure attaching to the office of Governor-General.
Parliament may set out by law which offices make up the personal staff of the Governor-General, the salaries and allowances to be paid to the members of that staff, and the other sums to be paid for the expenses that come with the office of Governor-General.
Any salaries or other sums prescribed under paragraph (1) of this Article are hereby charged on and shall be paid out of the Consolidated Fund.
Any salaries or other sums set out under paragraph (1) of this Article are charged on the Consolidated Fund (the government's main public account) and must be paid out of it.
Subject to the provisions of paragraph (4) of this Article, power to make appointments to the offices for the time being prescribed under paragraph (1) of this Article as offices that are to constitute the personal staff of the Governor-General, and to remove and to exercise disciplinary control over persons holding or acting in any such office, is hereby vested in the Governor-General acting in accordance with his own deliberate judgment.
Subject to paragraph (4) of this Article, the Governor-General, acting in his own deliberate judgment, has the power to appoint people to the offices currently set out under paragraph (1) of this Article as the offices of his personal staff, to remove them, and to discipline anyone holding or acting in any such office.
The Governor-General, acting in accordance with his own deliberate judgment, may appoint to any of the offices prescribed under paragraph (1) of this Article such public officers as he may select from a list submitted by the Public Service Commission, but-
The Governor-General, acting in his own deliberate judgment, may appoint to any of the offices set out under paragraph (1) of this Article public officers he selects from a list submitted by the Public Service Commission, but:
the provisions of paragraph (3) of this Article shall apply in relation to an officer so appointed as respects his service on the personal staff of the Governor-General but not as respects his service as a public officer;
paragraph (3) of this Article applies to an officer appointed in this way as regards his service on the Governor-General's personal staff, but not as regards his service as a public officer;
an officer so appointed shall not during, continuance on the personal staff of the Governor-General, perform the functions of any public office; and
an officer appointed in this way cannot carry out the duties of any public office while he remains on the Governor-General's personal staff; and
an officer so appointed may at any time be appointed by the Governor-General, if the Public Service Commission so recommend, to assume or resume the function of a public office and he shall thereupon vacate his office on the personal staff of the Governor-General, but the Governor-General may, in his own deliberate judgment, decline to release the officer for that appointment.
if the Public Service Commission recommends it, the Governor-General may at any time appoint an officer appointed in this way to take up or return to the duties of a public office. The officer then leaves his office on the Governor-General's personal staff. But the Governor-General, in his own deliberate judgment, may refuse to release the officer for that appointment.
All offices prescribed under paragraph (1) of this Article as offices that are to constitute the personal staff of the Governor-General shall, for the purposes of Chapter VIII, be deemed to be public offices.
All offices set out under paragraph (1) of this Article as offices of the Governor-General's personal staff are treated as public offices for the purposes of Chapter VIII.