Recruitment
The Orders require the Commissioners to:
- maintain the principles of selection on merit on the basis of fair and open competition in recruitment to the Civil Service;
- prescribe and publish a Recruitment Code on the interpretation and application of the principles;
- incorporate in the Recruitment Code certain restricted circumstances in which exceptions to the principles can be made, within the terms of the Orders in Council;
- approve appointments at the most senior levels in the Civil Service made through open competition or under the exceptions;
- audit the recruitment systems of departments and agencies for compliance with the Recruitment Code.
In addition, the Commissioners, as empowered by the Orders, may require departments and agencies to publish information about their recruitment, including their use of the exceptions to selection on merit on the basis of fair and open competition.
