Organization Profile - Secretariat of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians

Leader of the Government in the House of Commons

National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians Act

24 (1) The Secretariat of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians is established.

24 (2) The Secretariat is to assist the Committee in fulfilling its mandate.

25 (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.

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

26 If the executive director is absent or incapacitated or the office of executive director is vacant, the Minister designated under section 3 may designate another person to act as executive director, but a person must not be so designated for more than 90 days without the Governor in Council’s approval.

28 The executive director is the chief executive officer of the Secretariat and has the control and management of the Secretariat and all matters connected with it.

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27 (1) The executive director is to be paid the remuneration that is fixed by the Governor in Council and is entitled to be paid reasonable travel and living expenses incurred in the exercise of their powers or the performance of their duties or functions while absent from their ordinary place of work.