Section 16
SECTION 16. Merit System - All officials and employees of the Administration shall be selected and appointed on the basis of merit and fitness in accordance with a comprehensive and progressive merit system to be established by the Administration immediately upon its organization. The recruitment, transfer, promotion and dismissal of all its personnel, including temporary workers shall be governed by such merit system. In this connection, the officers and employees of the Administration shall be exempt from the application of the Civil Service Law, rules and regulations and from the rules and regulations of the Wage and Position Classification Office.