Continuity of employment

1 Every transferred employee becomes an employee of the new Electoral Commission on 1 October 2010. 2 However, for the purposes of this Act and every enactment, law, determination, contract, and agreement relating to the employment of the transferred employee,— a the contract of employment of that employee is deemed to have been unbroken; and b that employee's period of service with his or her previous employer, and every other period of service of that employee that is recognised as continuous service by his or her previous employer, is deemed to have been a period of service with the new Electoral Commission.