Section 29

Where by or under any State law any authority is empowered to appoint or name a person to have or exercise any powers or perform any duties, such authority may either appoint a person by name or direct the person for the time being holding such office as may be designated by such authority to have and exercise such powers and perform such duties, and thereupon, or from such date as the authority may specify, the person so appointed or holding such office shall have and may exercise such powers or perform such duties accordingly.

Any appointment may be made with retrospective effect to any date not being earlier than the commencement of the law under which such appointment is made.

Where any State law confers upon any authority a power to make appointments to any office or place, the power shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as including a power to dismiss or suspend any person appointed and to appoint another person temporary in the place of any person so suspended or in place of any sick or absent holder of such office or place:

Provided that where the power of such authority to make such appointment is only exercisable upon the recommendation, or subject to the approval or consent, of some other authority, the powers conferred by this subsection shall, unless the contrary intention appears, only be exercisable upon such recommendation or subject to such approval or consent.

Official designation to include officer executing duties.