The Chair and Members of the SHRC serve on a part-time basis, supported by a full-time Executive Director. While noting that the Executive Director is a permanent member of staff who attends the meetings of the Commission and has delegated authority from the Commission to make operational decisions, the statutory decision-making body has no full-time voting members. 

The SCA emphasizes that the enabling legislation of an NHRI should clearly provide for the inclusion of full-time, remunerated members within its decision-making body. This is essential to ensure stable tenure, safeguard the NHRI from actual or perceived conflicts of interest, and support the effective discharge of its mandate. 

The SCA encourages the SHRC to advocate for amendments to its enabling law to explicitly provide full-time members within its decision-making body. 

The SCA refers to Paris Principle B.3 and to its General Observation 2.2 on ‘Full-time members of an NHRI.’