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##### 18B Staff (1) The staff required to assist the Commissioner in the exercise of the Commissioner’s powers, and the performance of the Commissioner’s functions, or required for the purposes of the Merit Protection Act, shall be persons appointed or employed under this Act. (2) The Commissioner has all the powers of a Secretary under this Act so far as those powers relate to the branch of the Australian Public Service comprising the staff referred to in subsection (1), as if that branch were a separate Department of the Australian Public Service.