S.L. 363.20 Art. 24Period of contract.

(1) All appointments in the service of the Council shall be on a three-year contract which may be renewed for successive periods of three years. The contract document shall be the one published in the Human Resources Procedures.

The contract of employment shall incorporate the conditions agreed upon in the collective agreement; in the absence of such conditions, the provisions of Part V of the Act shall, mutatis mutandis, apply: Provided that clerical workers may be employed on a contract of less than three years in order to substitute clerical workers who are on long unpaid leave.

(2) Five months prior to the termination date of the contract of employment of the Executive Secretary with the Council, the Executive Secretary shall notify the Mayor in writing of such termination, upon which the procedure laid down in sub-regulations (3) and (4) shall come into force.

(3) On notification by the Executive Secretary in accordance with sub-regulation (2), the Mayor shall put the subject on the Agenda of the first Council meeting, wherein the subject shall be discussed and a decision is taken by means of a resolution during such Council meeting.

(4) Any decision whether to renew the contract or not, shall be taken three months before the termination date of the contract.

(5) Failure to proceed in terms of sub-regulations (2) to (4), the contract of employment of the Executive Secretary shall remain valid up to the eventual decision to observe the procedure established in sub-regulations (3) and (4).

(6) In the case where the Council resolves to terminate the contract prior to the termination date, such resolution shall be in accordance with the procedure established in sub-regulations (2) to (4).