(1) In this section:
"Territory staff" means:
(a) the Head of Administration;
(b) an Associate Head of Administration;
(c) the transitional Territory staff; and
(d) the members of the teaching service.
(2) Until the commencement of the amendment of the definition of public authority of the Commonwealth in subsection 4(1) of the Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1976 (in this section called the Act ) made by this Act, the Act applies in relation to the members of the Territory staff:
(a) as if those members were employed by the Commonwealth under a law; and
(b) subject to the modifications in Schedule 2.
(3) Decisions for the purposes of the Act made in relation to Territory staff by the Public Service Commissioner that were in effect at the commencement of this section continue in effect as if made by the Head of Administration.