Audit Office Act [Chapter 22:18] (No. 12 of 2009) (3) Any regulation, notice, circular or other document which, immediately before the fixed date, regulated the conditions of service of any class of transferred members in terms of the Public Service Act [Chapter 16:04] shall continue, on and after that date, to regulate the conditions of service of— (a) those transferred members; and (b) any persons who join the Audit Office after the fixed date and who are in the same grade of employment as those transferred members; until the Commission replaces the regulation, notice, circular or other document concerned or otherwise alters the conditions of service concerned in terms of this Act. (4) All offices in the Public Service held by transferred persons shall, from the fixed date, be transferred to the Audit Office, and accordingly any person who refuses to be transferred to the Audit Office in terms of subsection (2) shall be entitled to the terminal benefits upon resignation from, not the abolition of, an office in the Public Service: Provided that a person who refuses to be transferred to Audit Office and who does not wish to resign from the Public Service may be deployed by the Public Service to another post in the Public Service on the terms not less favourable than applied to him or her at the fixed date. (5) Every member of the Public Service who, immediately before the fixed date, is employed in the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor-General on pensionable conditions of service and who on that date is engaged as a member of the Audit Office, shall continue to contribute towards the Public Service Pension Scheme as if his or her service with the Office forms part of the service and is continuous with his or her service with the Public Service subsequent to his or her engagement. (6) Any person who is engaged by the Audit Office after the fixed date shall, on the date of his or her engagement, contribute towards the Public Service Pension Scheme. FIRST SCHEDULE (Section 14(2)) PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO COMMISSION Paragraph 1. Interpretation in First Schedule 2. Disqualifications for appointment to Commission. 3. Terms of office and conditions of service of members of Commission. 4. Vacation of office by members of Commission. 5. Filling of vacancies on Commission. 6. Procedure of Commission. 7. Committees of Commission. 8. Minutes of Proceedings. 9. Reports of Commission 10. Validity of decisions and acts of Commission. Interpretation in First Schedule 1. In this Schedule— “appointed member”, in relation to the Commission, means a member appointed under section 14(1)(a) or (e); “Chairperson” means the Chairperson of the Commission referred to in section 14(1)(a). Disqualifications for appointment to Commission 2. (1) Subject to this Act, a person shall not be qualified for appointment as a member of the Commission, nor shall he or she hold office as an appointed member, if— - 18 -