Transitional Provisions

   36. Transitional provisions relating to persons deemed employees of
 Authority---(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or any
 provision of the State Sector Act 1988,---
   (a) Every person employed in the Ministry immediately before the
         commencement of this Act and engaged principally in duties that
         relate to functions that are functions of the Authority or of
         the Director is hereby deemed to be an employee of the
         Authority; and
   (b) The terms and conditions of employment of every person who, by
         virtue of paragraph (a) of this subsection, becomes an employee
         of the Authority shall, until varied or until a new contract of
         employment is entered into, be based on the employment contract
         that applied to that person immediately before the commencement
         of this Act in respect of that person's employment in the
         Ministry.

   (2) For the purposes of every enactment, law, award, determination,
 contract, and agreement at any time relating to the employment of a
 person who, by virtue of subsection (1) of this section, becomes an
 employee of the Authority,---
   (a) The contract of employment that applied immediately before the
         commencement of this Act in respect of that person's employment
         in the Ministry shall be deemed not to have been broken by that
         person having so become a person employed by the Authority; and
   (b) Any period recognised by the Secretary as continuous service in
         the Ministry shall be deemed to have been a period of continuous
         service in the Authority.

   (3) No person who becomes, by virtue of subsection (1) (a) of this
 section, a person employed by the Authority shall be entitled to any
 payment, benefit, or compensation whether for redundancy or otherwise by
 reason only of that person having ceased to be a person employed in the
 Ministry.