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- (3) The Civil List of the Yang di-Pertuan Negara and the remuneration to which any person is entitled under the preceding clause shall be charged on and paid out of the Consolidated Fund and shall not be diminished during the continuance in office of the Yang di-Pertuan Negara or, as the case may be, during the period during which the said
person exercises the functions of the office of Yang di-Pertuan Negara.
- (4) Subject to the provisions of the following clause, the appointment, terms of service, disciplinary control, termination of appointment and dismissal of the personal staff of the Yang di-Pertuan Negara shall be matters for the Yang di-Pertuan Negara acting in his discretion.
- (5) The Yang di-Pertuan Negara, if he so desires, may appoint to his personal staff such public officers as he may select, after consultation with the Prime Minister, from a list submitted by the Public Service Commission and the provisions of the preceding Clause (except in so far as they relate to appointment) shall apply in relation to a person so appointed as respects his service on the personal staff of the Yang di-Pertuan Negara but not as respects his service as a public officer.
- (6) The remuneration of the personal staff of the Yang di-Pertuan Negara, other than a person appointed under the preceding clause, shall be defrayed out of the Civil List of the Yang di-Pertuan Negara.
Yang di-Pertuan Negara to act on advice. 5. (1) In the exercise of his functions under this Constitution or any law or as a member of the Conference of Rulers the Yang di-Pertuan Negara shall act in accordance with the advice of the Cabinet or of a Minister acting under the general authority of the Cabinet, except as otherwise provided by the Federal Constitution or this Constitution; but shall be entitled, at his request, to any information concerning the Government of the State which is available to the Cabinet.
- (2) The Yang di-Pertuan Negara may act in his discretion in the performance of the following functions (in addition to those in the performance of which he may act in his discretion under the Federal Constitution or the other provisions of this Constitution) that is to say—
- (a) the appointment of the Prime Minister;
- (b) the withholding of consent to a request for the dissolution of the Legislative Assembly.
- (3) The Legislature may by law make provision for requiring the Yang di-Pertuan Negara to act after consultation with or on the recommendation of any person or body of persons other than the Cabinet in the exercise of his functions other than—
- (a) functions exercisable in his discretion;
- (b) functions with respect to the exercise of which provision is made in any other provision of this Constitution or in the Federal Constitution.
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