SECTION 23B. Administrative deputy assistants

The registers of probate of the respective courts of the probate and family court department for the following counties may, subject to the approval of the court administrator as to compliance with personnel standards promulgated pursuant to section 8 of chapter 211B, appoint 1 or more administrative deputy assistants; provided, however, that administrative deputy assistants may be removed at the pleasure of the registers of probate. The administrative deputy assistants shall meet the definition of both confidential and managerial employees as those terms appear in chapter 150E and shall perform no official judicial duties. The appointments shall be as follows:

Barnstable, 1 administrative deputy assistant

Essex, 1 administrative deputy assistant

Middlesex, 4 administrative deputy assistants

Norfolk, 1 administrative deputy assistant

Plymouth, 1 administrative deputy assistant

Suffolk, 2 administrative deputy assistants

Worcester, 2 administrative deputy assistants.