For the purposes of the Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1976 and any other law of the Commonwealth, if:
(a) a person is engaged as an AFP employee under section 24 for a period; and
(b) the person completes that period of engagement (the initial period ); and
(c) the person is re - engaged under that section for a further period starting immediately after the end of the initial period;
the person's employment is taken to be continuous from the beginning of the initial period until the end of the re - engagement.