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Officers and Servants.
Officers of board of conservators.
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40.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this section a board of conservators may appoint a clerk or clerks and such number of inspectors and water keepers as the board may consider necessary but only to the extent which the funds at the board's disposal permit for the protection of the fisheries in their district and for generally enforcing this Act therein.
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(2) Every appointment of a clerk or other officer or servant made by a board of conservators and the salary, allowances and tenure of office of every person so appointed shall be subject to the approval of the Minister, and no such appointment shall take effect unless and until the approval of the Minister thereto is communicated in writing to the board.
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(3) A board of conservators shall take sufficient security from any clerk and any other officer or person receiving money for the board for the due performance of his duties and the duly accounting for such money.
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(4) The period of office of a clerk or any other officer or servant of a board of conservators shall not be terminated by reason only of the retirement or removal from office of the members of such board.
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(5) A board of conservators may from time to time remove from office any officer or servant.
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(6) The Minister may at any time by notice in writing require any board of conservators to suspend from duty or dismiss any clerk or other officer or servant of the board, and in the event of a board of conservators failing for a period of one month to comply with a notice under this section the Minister may himself by order suspend from duty or dismiss the clerk or other officer or servant mentioned in the notice.
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(7) Every instrument of appointment by a board of conservators of any treasurer, clerk, inspector, water keeper or other officer shall—
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(a) be prepared and printed in the prescribed form,
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(b) be sealed with the seal of the board, and
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(c) be signed by not less than three members of the Board.
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(8) Every instrument of appointment by a board of conservators purporting to be sealed with the seal of the board shall be sufficient evidence of such appointment.
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(9) An instrument of appointment by a board of conservators shall not be subject to any stamp duty.
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(10) No member of a board of conservators shall be eligible for any paid office under the board.
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