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#### 156 Staff (1) Subject to this Part, the Advisory Committee’s staff shall be persons engaged under the Public Service Act 1999. (2) For the purposes of the Public Service Act 1999: (a) the Convenor and the APS employees assisting the Convenor together constitute a Statutory Agency; and (b) the Convenor is the Head of that Statutory Agency. (3) In addition to the staff referred to in subsection (1), the Advisory Committee may, on the Commonwealth’s behalf, employ under written agreements such persons as the Advisory Committee thinks necessary for the performance or exercise of any of its functions and powers. (4) The terms and conditions of employment of persons employed under subsection (3) are such as the Advisory Committee determines from time to time with the Minister’s written approval.