Statutory Services of the Commonwealth

The statutory services are the services of the Commonwealth constituted by the domain statute of a single ministry or parliament. A statutory service serves only the body that constituted it, with its bureaus and constituent organisations, and its officers enter republic governments only on deputation at a republic’s request. Many began as the professional staff of a single bureau and were given a statute later.

Statutory Services

• Commonwealth Medical Service – Parliament of Health
• Commonwealth Labour Service – Parliament of Milk and Honey
• Commonwealth Teaching Service – Parliament of Education
• Commonwealth Central Secretariat – Ministry of the Commonwealth
• State Service – Parliament of State
• Inspectorate Service – Ministry of the Commonwealth
• Commonwealth Accounts Service – Ministry of Accounts
• Commonwealth Legal Service – Parliament of Law
• Defence Civil Service – Ministry of Defence
• Economic and Statistical Service – Ministry of Accounts
• Central Records Service – Ministry of Culture
• Post and Telecommunications Service – Ministry of the Interior
• Interior Service – Ministry of the Interior
• Frontier and Levy Service – Common Services commission
• Revenue and Customs Service – Common Services commission

Each statutory service has one cadre authority. Law crossing ministerial boundaries requires a commission, so a service whose work belongs to two bodies cannot be constituted by either of them. These services are constituted instead under the standing Common Services commission of the State Secretaries, which has been renewed continuously since 1972. It holds two at present, the Frontier and Levy Service and the Revenue and Customs Service, which divide the frontier of the Ministry of the Interior and the levy of the Ministry of Commerce between them.