(1) A person who, immediately before the commencement, was employed as a member of the staff of the Arts Institute:
(a) is taken to have been employed, with effect from the commencement, as a member of the staff of the University;
(b) is taken to have been so employed on the same terms and conditions as those on which the person was employed as a member of the staff of the old institution; and
(c) is taken to have accrued an entitlement to benefits in connection with that employment that is equivalent to the entitlement that the person had accrued in connection with employment as a member of the staff of the Arts Institute immediately before the commencement.
(2) Where, because of subsection ( 1), a person is taken to have been employed as a member of the staff of the University with effect from the commencement, that employment is taken for all purposes to have been continuous with the employment of the person immediately before the commencement as a member of the staff of the Arts Institute.