Appointment of staff

(1) The Board shall, with the approval of the Minister, appoint a chief executive officer to be called the “Director of Tourism”, and a secretary to the Board, at such remuneration and on such terms and conditions as the Minister may approve. (2) Subject to subsection (1) of this section, the Board may appoint and employ, at such remuneration and on such terms and conditions as it thinks fit, such other officers, agents and 12 servants as it deems necessary for the proper carrying into effect of this Act, Provided that, (a) no salary in excess of the rate of eight thousand dollars per annum shall be assigned to any post without the prior approval of the (b) no appointment shall be made to any post to which a salary in excess of the rate of eight thousand dollars per annum is assigned without the prior approval of the Minister; and (c) no provision shall be made for the payment of any pensions, gratuities or other like benefits to any officers, agents or servants, or to others by reference to their service, without the prior approval of the Minister. (3) The Board may, with the approval of the Minister, formulate schemes for the grant of pensions, gratuities or other like benefits to its officers, agents or servants. (4) Except in cases in which the Minister otherwise directs, the persons who, immediately before the commencement of this Act, held offices established for the purposes of the body known as the “Bureau of Tourism” shall be deemed, on the commencement of this Act, to be transferred to the service of the Board and to hold offices under the Board, on the like terms and conditions of employment, as if they had been originally appointed to the service of the Board.