5(1)The Commissioner may, with the approval of the Executive Office as to numbers, appoint such staff as the Commissioner considers necessary.N.I.
(2)The remuneration and other conditions of service of the persons appointed as members of the Commissioner's staff are to be determined by the Commissioner.
(3)The Commissioner may make payments towards the provision of such pensions or allowances to or in respect of the persons appointed as members of the Commissioner's staff as the Commissioner determines.
(4)The reference in sub-paragraph (3) to pensions or allowances includes a reference to pensions or allowances by way of compensation for loss of employment.
(5)A determination by the Commissioner under this paragraph requires the approval of the Executive Office and of the Department of Finance in Northern Ireland.
(6)Employment as a member of the Commissioner's staff is among the kinds of employment to which a superannuation scheme under Article 3 of the Superannuation (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 can apply; and, accordingly, in Schedule 1 to that Order, under the heading “Other Bodies”, at the end insert— “ Employment by the Commissioner for Survivors of Institutional Childhood Abuse. ”
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 2 para. 5 in force at 2.11.2020 by S.R. 2020/229, art. 2(b)