Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) This section has effect for the purposes of the application, at any time at or after the transition, of a law, award, determination or agreement in relation to the employment of a staff member.
(2) Neither his or her contract of employment, nor his or her period of employment, shall be taken to have been broken by the operation of this Act.
(3) Without limiting the generality of section 29 or subsection ( 2) of this section, this Act does not affect any accrued rights that he or she had immediately before the transition in respect of any kind of leave.
(4) Where:
(a) if he or she had, immediately before the transition, ceased to be employed by the transferring body, a period during which he or she was employed by the body or by any other person would have had to be taken into account in determining an amount payable to him or her, or a benefit to which he or she would have been entitled, because of his or her so ceasing; and
(b) but for this subsection, some or all of that period would not have to be taken into account as a period during which he or she was employed by the body;
the body shall treat the whole of the first - mentioned period as a period during which he or she was employed by it.