HEALTH SERVICES ACT 1988 - SECT 204 Transfer of hospital employees to new health service

HEALTH SERVICES ACT 1988 - SECT 204

    (1)     A person who, immediately before the effective date of an Order under section 181, was an employee (other than the chief executive officer) of a transferring hospital is to be regarded as—

        (a)     having been employed by the new health service with effect from that date; and

        (b)     having been so employed on the same terms and conditions as those that applied to the person, immediately before that date, as an employee of the transferring hospital; and

        (c)     having accrued an entitlement to benefits, in connection with that employment by the new health service, that is equivalent to the entitlement that the person had accrued, as an employee of the transferring hospital immediately before that date.

    (2)     The service of a transferred hospital employee as an employee of the new health service is to be regarded for all purposes as having been continuous with the service of the employee, immediately before the effective date of the Order under section 181, as an employee of the transferring hospital.

    (3)     A transferred hospital employee is not entitled to receive any payment or other benefit by reason only of having ceased to be an employee of the transferring hospital because of this Division.

    (4)     A certificate purporting to be signed by the chief executive officer of the new health service certifying that a person named in the certificate was, with effect from the effective date of the Order under section 181, employed, by virtue of this section by the new health service is admissible in evidence in any proceedings and is conclusive proof of the matters stated in it.

S. 205 inserted by No. 39/2000 s. 11.