77 (a) if, on the recommendation of the Committee on Standing Rules and Orders, more than half of all the members of the National Assembly resolve that the Clerk should be removed; (b) if the Clerk would be required to vacate his or her seat were he or she a member of Parliament; or (c) in any event, after holding office as Clerk for twelve years. (4) The Committee on Standing Rules and Orders must appoint such other staff of Parliament as it considers necessary. (5) The Clerk of Parliament and the other staff of Parliament (a) are appointed on terms of service approved from time to time by the Committee on Standing Rules and Orders; and (b) are public officers but do not form part of the Civil Service.