(1) Subject to section 144T, the staff required to assist the TSRA in the performance of its functions are to be persons engaged under the Public Service Act 1999 .
(2) For the purposes of the Public Service Act 1999 :
(a) the TSRA Chief Executive Officer and the APS employees assisting the TSRA Chief Executive Officer together constitute a Statutory Agency; and
(b) the TSRA Chief Executive Officer is the Head of that Statutory Agency.
Note 1: A member of the staff of the TSRA is not qualified to stand for election, or to be elected, as a member of the TSRA (see paragraph 142V(1)(b)).
Note 2: The TSRA may declare that a member of the TSRA has become an employee of the TSRA. The member is taken to have resigned from the TSRA on the date of the declaration (see subsections 143R(3) and (4)).