Section 137, REPEALED THE CONSTITUTION OF SIERRA LEONE 1978-12

(1) It shall be the duty of the Public Service Commission—a) to conduct or cause to be conducted on its behalf examinations for appointments to any office in the Public Service including service with a public corporation where any such examinations are prescribed by Regulations made in that behalf. b) to assist in framing and operating schemes of joint recruitment to offices in the Public Service and public corporations for which candidates possessing special qualifications are required, including schemes for the standardisation of salaries and other conditions of service in the Public Service and public corporations; c) to prescribe the methods of recruitment to offices in the Public Service and public corporations in consultation with the appropriate authority responsible for appointment to such offices; and d) to prescribe the principles to be followed in making appointments to posts in the Public Service and public corporations and in making promotions and transfers from one Service to another, and on the suitability of candidates for such appointments, promotions or transfers in consultation with the appropriate authority responsible for the Public Service or public corporation concerned. (2) For the purposes of this Section the expression “public corporation” means a statutory corporation set up entirely out of public funds or funds provided in whole or in part by or otherwise guaranteed by Parliament. Principal representatives of Sierra Leone abroad, Commissioner of Police and Armed Forces Commanders.