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 * (4) Such member of a branch of the Public Services Commission established under Clause (1) as may be designated by the Chairman of the Commission shall be chairman of the branch.


 * (5) The number of members of the Public Services Commission required by Clause (4) of Article 139 shall be the number of the members of the main body, exclusive of those who are members of a branch but not of the main body.


 * (6) Where a post in a federal department in a Borneo State entails duties in or in respect of the other of those States, the branch of the Public Services Commission whose jurisdiction is to extend to that post shall be the branch for the State in which the head of the department is normally stationed or, in any case of doubt or difficulty, whichever branch the Federal Government may determine.


 * (7) Notwithstanding Clause (2) of Article 134, so long as there is for a Borneo State a branch of the Public Services Commission under this Article and the branch is constituted in accordance with Clause (3), the jurisdiction of the Public Services Commission shall extend (except as regards the exercise of disciplinary control over them) to members of the public service of the State who are seconded to the general public service of the Federation, other than members in or below such grade as the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, with the concurrence of the Ruler or Governor, may direct ; and for purposes of the Public Services Commission they shall be deemed (except as regards the exercise of disciplinary control over them) to be members of the general public service of the Federation.


 * (8) Clauses (1) and (3) shall have effect until the end of August, 1968, and thereafter either shall continue to have effect—


 * (a) in relation to a Borneo State, 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.


 * 56. (1) If provision is made by federal law for establishing a joint service common to the Federation and to a Borneo State or Singapore, or to two or more of those States with or without the Federation, and for conferring jurisdiction in respect of that service on the Judicial and Legal Service Commission or the Public Services Commission, federal law may provide for functions of the Commission in