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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Committees, therefore, concluded that if Paragraph 3 of the Annex was read on its own, it did not also state that there will be a different methodology to be used for the reappointments of the Director and Assistant Directors. In fact, the Committees went further to look through Section 51 of the Interpretation and General Provisions Act, which provides as follows. Section 51(1):- “Where, or under a written law, a power or duty is conferred or imposed upon a person to make an appointment or to constitute or establish a board, commission, committee or similar body, then unless a contrary intention appears, the person having that power or duty shall also have the power to remove, suspend, dismiss or revoke the appointment of and to reappoint or reinstate a person appointed in the exercise of the power or duty or to revoke the appointment, constitution or establishment of or dissolve a board, commission, committee or similar body appointed, constituted or established in exercise of the power or duty and to reappoint, reconstitute or re-establish it.” Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Section 1 and Paragraph 3 of the Schedule is what has been used to justify the reappointment under that paragraph. But Section 51(2) provides a proviso that I wish to read to the House. It reads:- “Where the power or duty of a person under this section is exercisable only upon the recommendation, or is subject to the approval or consent, of another person, then the powers shall, unless a contrary intention appears, be exercisable only upon that recommendation or subject to the approval or consent” Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Committees felt that since Paragraph 3 of the First Schedule does not provide for a different procedure for reappointment, as such, the appointing authority is bound by the expression of the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act as reinforced by Section 51(2) of Cap.2 that I have quoted."
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