State Service (Savings and Transitional Provisions) Act 2000

A person specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 becomes, on the commencement of the Principal Act, an officer or employee appointed or employed under the Principal Act and is taken to have been appointed or employed under that Act and to have been assigned the duties which the person was performing immediately before that commencement as if those duties had been assigned to the person under section 34(1)(e) of the Principal Act.

Where a person becomes an officer or employee by virtue of subsection (1), that person – is to be employed in accordance with the terms and conditions specified in the award and instrument of appointment (if any) that applied to that person immediately before the commencement of the Principal Act unless those terms and conditions are varied by agreement, a decision of a competent tribunal or as otherwise prescribed in the Principal Act; and is to retain any rights that immediately before that commencement have accrued to that person; and is to have, under the Principal Act, the employment status in relation to that person as specified in column 2 of Schedule 2.