(1) The Commission may from time to time appoint such officers and employees (including acting or temporary or casual officers and employees) as it considers necessary for the effective and efficient carrying out of the functions of the Commission, and, subject to subsection (3) of this section and to any contract of service, may at any time suspend or remove any officer or employee from office or employment.
(2) The Commission may from time to time pay to its officers and employees, out of its funds, such salaries and allowances as the Commission thinks appropriate, within scales fixed by it after consultation with the State Services Commission.
(3) The Commission may from time to time determine, after consultation with the State Services Commission, the terms and conditions of service on which officers and employees of the Commission shall be employed.
(4) The Commission, out of its funds, may subsidise any fund or scheme for the purpose of providing superannuation or retiring allowances for its officers and employees or any of them.
(5) Notwithstanding anything in this Act, any person who, immediately before becoming an officer or employee of the Commission, is a contributor to the Government Superannuation Fund under Part 2 or Part 2A of the Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956 shall be deemed, for the purposes of that Act, to be employed in the Government service so long as he or she continues to be an officer or employee of the Commission; and that Act shall apply to the person in all respects as if service as such an officer or employee were Government service. For the purposes of the Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956, the controlling authority in relation to any such person shall be the Commission.
(6) Subject to the Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956, nothing in subsection (5) of this section shall entitle any person to whom that subsection applies to become a contributor to the Government Superannuation Fund after ceasing to be a contributor to that fund.
This Act was repealed as from 1 January 2003, by section 63 Sport and Recreation New Zealand Act 2002 (2002 No 38). See clause 2 Sport and Recreation New Zealand Act Commencement Order 2002 (SR 2002/376).
Subsection (4) was substituted, as from 1 July 1992, by section 2 Sport, Fitness, and Leisure Amendment Act 1992 (1992 No 18).