2. Formation of the Union Civil Services Board and Appointing and Assigning Duties

Chapter II

Formation of the Union Civil Services Board and Appointing and Assigning Dutie

Formation of the Board

4. The President shall form the Union Civil Services Board with a minimum of 5 members to a maximum of 7 members, including the Chairperson, to enable carrying out of duties for selecting, training of civil services personnel and prescribing of civil services regulations.

Appointing and Assigning Duties to the Chairperson and Members

5. The President shall appoint a Chairperson and members of the Union Civil Services Board from among the persons who fulfil the following qualifications :

• (a) person who has attained 50 years of age;
• (b) person who fulfils the qualifications stipulated for the Pyithu Hluttaw representatives as mentioned in section 120, with the exception of the age;
• (c) person who has not infringed the provisions mentioned in section 121 of the Constitution which disqualify a person from standing for election as Pyithu Hluttaw representatives;
• (d) experienced intelligentsia and intellectuals;
• (e) person who is loyal to the Union and its citizens;
• (f) person who is not a member of a political party;
• (g) person who is not a Hluttaw representative.

6. (a) The Chairperson shall be responsible to the President.
(b) The members shall be responsible to the Chairperson and to the President through the Chairperson.

7. If the Chairperson and members:

• (a) are civil services personnel, it shall be carried out according to the provisions of sub-section (c) of section 246 of the Constitution;
• (b) are person who will contest in any forthcoming general election, in order not to lose the right to be elected conferred on a citizen under sub-section (a) of section 38 of the Constitution, are entitled to carry out the party organizational activities and territorial organizational activities relating to election in conformity with the provisions contained in sections 120 and 121 of the Constitution,commencing from the day of the announcement to hold the election by the Union Election Commission.