For the purposes of the application of subsection 81B(3) of the Public Service Act 1922 a person who, immediately before the repeal of the NCDC Act by this Act:
(a) was employed by the NCDC; and
(b) was an unattached officer for the purposes of the Public Service Act 1922 ;
shall be taken to have ceased, immediately before that repeal, to be a person appointed or employed under the Public Service Act 1922.