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[F1(A1)The Commission must from time to time set strategic priorities and objectives in connection with services provided by the House Departments.]
(1)The Commission shall appoint all staff in the House Departments, and shall determine their numbers and their remuneration and other terms and conditions of service.
(2)The Commission shall ensure that the complementing, grading and pay of staff in the House Departments are kept broadly in line with those in the [F2statutory home civil service], and that, so far as consistent with the requirements of the House of Commons, the other conditions of service of staff in the House Departments are also kept broadly in line with those in the [F2statutory home civil service].
(3)The Commission shall ensure that the pensions and other similar benefits of staff in or formerly in the House Departments are kept in line with the provisions of [F3, or provided under,]the principal Civil Service Pension Scheme (as it applies for the time being to the [F2statutory home civil service]), but need not do so in the case of staff for whom provision for such benefits was made under another scheme before they entered service in the House Departments and continues to be so made in respect of such service.
(4)Subsection (1) above does not apply to the power to appoint, or the tenure of office of, the Clerk of the House of Commons, any Clerk Assistant, the Serjeant at Arms or Mr. Speaker’s personal staff.
[F4(5)The statutory home civil service” means the civil service (excluding Her Majesty's diplomatic service) within the meaning of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 (see section 1(4) of that Act).]
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F1S. 2(A1) inserted (10.7.2015) by House of Commons Commission Act 2015 (c. 24), ss. 2, 3(3)
F2Words in s. 2(2)(3) substituted (11.11.2010) by Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 (c. 25), s. 52, Sch. 2 para. 5(2); S.I. 2010/2703, art. 2(a); S.I. 2010/2703, art. 2(a)
F3Words in s. 2(3) inserted (1.4.2014) by Public Service Pensions Act 2013 (c. 25), s. 41(2), Sch. 8 para. 13 (with Sch. 11 para. 8); S.I. 2014/839, art. 4(2)(f)
F4S. 2(5) inserted (11.11.2010) by Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 (c. 25), s. 52, Sch. 2 para. 5(3); S.I. 2010/2703, art. 2(a)
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