Public Governance, Performance and Accountability (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2014 (62 of 2014)

Schedule 5   Corporate status of bodies

Part 2   Transitional provisions for bodies ceasing to be bodies corporate

Division 2   General transitional provisions

59   Employees

(1) If a person was an employee of a decorporatised body immediately before the commencement of this Schedule, and that employment was not employment on behalf of the Commonwealth:

(a) the person is taken, when this Schedule commences, to be employed under this Act as an employee of the Commonwealth without change to the terms and conditions of his or her employment; and

(b) the person’s service as an employee of the decorporatised body is taken, for all purposes, to be continuous with his or her service as an employee of the Commonwealth.

(2) Paragraph (1)(a) does not apply if a determination is made under section 72 of the Public Service Act 1999 that causes the person, when this Schedule commences, to become engaged under that Act as an employee of the Commonwealth.