Section 5: Staff discipline

(1) Every employee of the Council whose salary is not less than the prescribed salary or, if his appointment contains provisions for increases in salary, who may receive a
maximum annual salary thereunder exceeding the prescribed salary, shall be subject to the authority of the Council.
(2) Before dismissing any employee to whom subsection (1) of this section relates, the Council shall institute such inquiry as it shall deem fit.
(3) Any employee aforesaid who is dismissed by any committee under section 3 of this Act to which power of dismissal shall have been delegated in accordance with that section, shall have the right of appeal to the Council.
(4) Every other employee of the Council, other than an employee to whom subsection (1) of this section relates, shall be subject to the authority of the Registrar, so however that no pensionable member of the staff of the Council shall be dismissed by the Registrar without the approval of the Council.
(5) The Council may by order published in the Federal Gazette determine the prescribed salary for the purposes of subsection (1) above.