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6.

Staff of Authority

(1) The Authority may from time to time appoint persons to be

its chief executive officer ("the Chief Executive Officer") or other

officers or employees, and such persons shall be paid such

remuneration and allowances and shall hold their offices or

employment on such other terms and conditions as the Authority shall

determine.

(2) The Authority may make arrangements for or in respect of

the provision and maintenance of such schemes (whether contributory

or not) for the payment to or in respect of its employees of such

retirement benefits, gratuities or other superannuation allowances as

it may determine.

(3) For the purpose of enabling the Authority to perform its

functions on and from its establishment, it may, as an interim

measure, make arrangements for the supply to it by the Government of

public officers (by way of secondment or otherwise) or services

required by the Authority pending the making of sufficient

appointments under this section.

(4) Where a public officer is seconded under this section to

the Authority, the Authority shall reimburse to the Government or the

public body from which the officer was so seconded any salary or

other allowance paid to the officer as such by the Government or the

public body as regards the period (or any part thereof) during which

that officer was so seconded and shall also pay to the Government or

the public body such other amounts (if any) in relation to the

secondment as shall be agreed.