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(1)On such day as the Secretary of State may by order appoint (“the relevant day”), all the property, rights and liabilities to which the Post Office Users’ National Council was entitled or subject immediately before that day shall become by virtue of this section property, rights and liabilities of the Council.
(2)An order made under subsection (1) may be varied or revoked by a subsequent order at any time before any property, rights or liabilities of the Post Office Users’ National Council vest in the Council by virtue of this section.
(3)Paragraphs 1 and 7 of Schedule 3 apply for the purposes of this section as they apply for the purposes of section 62 with such modifications as are necessary (including the substitution for references to the Post Office and the Post Office company of references to the Post Office Users’ National Council and the Council respectively).
(4)Where a person employed in the civil service of the state and seconded to the Post Office Users’ National Council or a Country Council immediately before the relevant day becomes an employee of the Council on that day, his period of employment in the civil service of the state (including any part of that period spent otherwise than on secondment) counts as a period of employment with the Council for the purposes of the M1Employment Rights Act 1996 (and the change of employer does not affect the continuity of the period of employment for those purposes).
(5)Where a person who—
(a)is employed in the civil service of the state and is seconded to the Council, and
(b)immediately before his secondment to the Council was seconded to the Post Office Users’ National Council or a Country Council,
becomes an employee of the Council, his period of employment in the civil service of the state (including any part of that period spent otherwise than on secondment) counts as a period of employment with the Council for the purposes of the M2Employment Rights Act 1996 (and the change of employer does not affect the continuity of the period of employment for those purposes).
(6)In this section “Country Council” means the Post Office Users’ Council for Scotland, the Post Office Users’ Council for Wales or the Post Office Users’ Council for Northern Ireland.
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