Organization Profile - National Security and Intelligence Review Agency Secretariat

National Security and Intelligence Review Agency Act

41 (1) The National Security and Intelligence Review Agency Secretariat is established.

42 (1) There is to be an executive director of the Secretariat, who is to be appointed by the Governor in Council to hold office during pleasure for a term of up to five years. The executive director is eligible to be reappointed on the expiry of a first or subsequent term of office.

42 (2) The executive director has the rank and all the powers of a deputy head of a department.

43 If the executive director is absent or incapacitated or the office of executive director is vacant, the Governor in Council may appoint another person to act as executive director.

44 (1) The executive director is entitled to be paid the remuneration that is fixed by the Governor in Council and is entitled to be paid, in accordance with Treasury Board directives, reasonable travel and living expenses incurred in the performance of his or her duties or functions while absent from his or her ordinary place of work.