(d) performing such other functions as are provided for under this Constitution. (7) An Act of Parliament or Standing Orders may confer further functions on the Committee on Standing Rules and Orders. 122 Parliamentary Legal Committee (1) Parliament must appoint a committee to be known as the Parliamentary Legal Committee, consisting of Senators and Members of the National Assembly. (2) Where possible, the majority of the members of the Parliamentary Legal Committee must be qualified to practise as legal practitioners. (3) The procedure for the appointment of members of the Parliamentary Legal Committee must be prescribed in Standing Orders of the Senate and the National Assembly. 123 Functions of Parliamentary Legal Committee (1) The Parliamentary Legal Committee must examine-(a) every Bill, other than a Constitutional Bill, before it receives its final vote in the Senate or the National Assembly; (b) any Bill which has been amended after being examined by the Committee, before the Bill receives its final vote in the Senate or the National Assembly; (c) every statutory instrument published in the Gazette; (d) every draft Bill which has been referred to the Committee by a Minister; and (e) every draft statutory instrument which has been referred to the Committee by the authority empowered to make the instrument; and must report to Parliament or the Minister or authority, as the case may be, whether it considers any provision in the Bill, instrument or draft contravenes or, if enacted, would contravene any provision of this Constitution. (2) When examining any statutory instrument or draft statutory instrument the Parliamentary Legal Committee may report to Parliament or to the Minister or authority concerned whether it considers any provision in the instrument is or, if enacted, would be ultra vires the enabling Act of Parliament. (3) An Act of Parliament or Standing Orders may confer further functions on the Parliamentary Legal Committee. 124 Clerk of Parliament and other staff (1) The Committee on Standing Rules and Orders must appoint an officer to be known as the Clerk of Parliament. (3) The Clerk of Parliament must vacate his or her office if more than half of all the Members of the National Assembly resolve that he or she should be removed. (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 Public Service. - 54 -