The Authority shall have all such powers as are reasonably necessary or expedient to enable it to carry out its duties, and in particular, and without limiting the generality of the powers of the Authority, it may become a member of or affiliate to any international body concerned with the promotion of national parks or the conservation of nature and natural resources.”

There may from time to time be appointed under the provisions of the State Services Act 1962 suitable persons to be rangers for the purposes of this Act.

The State Services Commission shall, under section 41 of the State Services Act 1962, prescribe an occupational class to meet the needs of rangers appointed under this section. Subject to this section, that Act shall apply with respect to the occupational class prescribed pursuant to this subsection as if it had been prescribed by the Commission in the exercise of the discretion conferred on it by the said section 41.

All persons who immediately before the commencement of this section were rangers employed by any Board or trainee rangers employed by the Authority shall, on the commencement of this section, be deemed to be officers or employees, as the case may require, of the Public Service within the meaning of the State Services Act 1962, and shall be deemed to have been appointed under that Act as rangers or trainee rangers, as the case may be, in the positions held by them as employees of the Board or the Authority and at salaries not less than the salaries they were receiving as such employees immediately before the commencement of this section.

Every person deemed to be appointed under subsection (3) of this section shall be deemed to have been appointed to the occupational class prescribed pursuant to subsection (2) of this section, and shall be graded in accordance with the provisions of the State Services Act 1962, but may be paid such allowance (if any) in addition to salary as the State Services Commission considers appropriate, having regard to the remuneration and emoluments received by the employee in respect of his employment by a Board as a ranger or employment by the Authority as a trainee ranger.

Notwithstanding anything in the State Services Act 1962, no appeal shall lie against the first appointment of any person under subsection (3) of this section, but every promotion of any such person after his first appointment as aforesaid shall be subject to appeal in accordance with Part IV of the State Services Act 1962.”

A Board may appoint any suitable person to be a ranger in an honorary capacity for the purposes of this Act with respect to the Park under its control.

The following provisions shall apply with respect to every honorary ranger appointed under subsection (1) of this section:

Every member of a Board shall by virtue of his office be deemed to be a ranger in an honorary capacity for the purposes of this Act during his period of membership of the Board, and with respect to every such member the following provisions shall apply:

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, advances by way of loan may from time to time be made, out of money appropriated by Parliament, to any Park Board for the purpose of improving or developing the Park under its control. Every advance under this section shall be made upon such terms and conditions as the Minister of Finance thinks fit.

Where any Park Board borrows money pursuant to this section, it may use any of its funds in such manner and at such times as the Minister of Lands approves for the repayment of the money so borrowed and any interest payable thereon.

Where in the opinion of the Minister of Lands there is good and sufficient reason for so doing, he may postpone or remit the payment of interest or principal or postpone the repayment of instalments of principal and may remit the interest portion of any such instalment in respect of any money borrowed by a Park Board under this section.”