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for Singapore of that Commission or, if that Clause is not in operation, a member or members designated by the Federal Government.


 * (4) At any time when the branch of the Judicial and Legal Service Commission for the Borneo States includes among its members more than one chairman of a State Public Service Commission the following provisions shall apply :


 * (a) not more than one of those chairmen shall attend any meeting of the branch, and the one entitled to attend and be summoned to any meeting shall be determined by or in accordance with the rules of the branch and (subject to the rules) any general or special directions of the chairman of the branch ; and


 * (b) the branch shall not make appointments to posts in the State of either of those chairmen at a meeting which he does not attend and has not been summoned to, unless he consents to their doing so.


 * (5) Notwithstanding Clause (2) of Article 134, so long as there is for the Borneo States or for Singapore a branch of the Judicial and Legal Service Commission under this Article, the jurisdiction of the Commission shall extend to members of the public service of a Borneo State or of Singapore, as the case may be, who are seconded to the judicial and legal service, and for purposes of the Judicial and Legal Service Commission they shall be deemed to be members of that service.


 * (6) This Article shall have effect until the end of August, 1968, and thereafter—


 * (a) in relation to the Borneo States, until the Federal Government determines to the contrary ; and


 * (b) in relation to Singapore, until Parliament otherwise provides by an Act passed with the concurrence of the Governor.


 * 55. (1) In respect of members of the general public service of the Federation who are employed in a federal department in a Borneo State or in Singapore the functions to be discharged by the Public Services Commission shall, so long as this Clause has effect, be discharged by a branch of that Commission established for the State.


 * (2) Subject to Clause (3), the .branch of the Public Services Commission established for a State under Clause (1) shall consist of such members of the main body of the Commission as may be designated by the Federal Government and such special members as the Yang di-Pertuan Agong may appoint ; and the Yang di-Pertuan Agong in making any appointment under this Clause shall act in his discretion, after considering the advice of the Prime Minister and consulting the Governor of the State.