54. Public Service Commission

Commission or continue to hold office as such member if he is or becomes a member of Parliament, a Provincial

Council or a local authority.

Provided that any such person shall, until he ceases to be a member of the Public Service Commission, or while continuing to be a member, attains the age at which he would, if he were a public officer or a judicial officer, as the case may be, be required to retire, be deemed to be a public officer or a judicial officer and to hold a pensionable office in the service of the State, for the purpose of any provision relating to the grant of pensions, gratuities and other allowances in respect of such service.

34 - Chapter IX substituted by the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution Sec. 4.

35 - Substituted by the Twenty First Amendment to the Constitution Sec. 4(1).

36[(4) Every member of the Commission shall hold office for a period of three years from the date of appointment, unless the member becomes subject to any disqualification under paragraph (2) or earlier resigns from his office by writing addressed to the President or is removed from office by the President with the approval of the Constitutional Council or is convicted by a court of law of any offence involving moral turpitude or if a resolution for the imposition of civic disability upon the member has been passed in terms of Article 81 or is deemed to have vacated his office under paragraph (6).]

Commission for more than two terms.

Commission.

37[(7) The President may grant a member leave from the performance of his duties relating to the Commission for a period not exceeding two months and shall, for the duration of 38[such period, 39[on the recommendation of the Constitutional Council,]] appoint a person qualified to be a member of the Commission, to be a temporary member for the period of such leave.]

36 - Substituted by the Twenty First Amendment to the Constitution Sec. 4(2).

37 - Substituted by the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution Sec. 10(3).

38 - Substituted by the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution Sec. 8(3).

39 - Substituted by the Twenty First Amendment to the Constitution Sec. 4(3).