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Private Client analysis: This appeal concerned a challenge to the Trinidad and Tobago Revenue Authority Act. The Act transfers to a new Revenue Authority functions which have to date been entrusted to government departments, and provides for these functions to be discharged by people who are not ‘public officers’ in the Public Service. The Constitution of Trinidad and Tobago defines ‘public officers’ as persons working in the service of the government and provides, in Chapter 9, for a Public Service Commission with the sole power of appointment over such officers. The appellant argued that the Act was inconsistent with the Constitution, because the intent of the Constitution was that all persons carrying out core governmental functions were to be ‘public officers’ protected by Chapter 9. The Judicial Committee disagreed. It found no reason to require that core governmental functions must only be performed by ‘public officers’ and declined to define a ‘core’ function. Further,...
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