Continuity of employment
6.—(1) Section 54 of the 1985 Act shall have effect as if the existing magistrates' courts committees were relevant authorities within subsection (4) of that section.
(2) Section 54 of the 1985 Act as it has effect under paragraph (1) above shall apply to a person who was appointed by an existing magistrates' courts committee and whose appointment ceases by reason of the dissolution of the committee under Article 3 above as if for the period he was so appointed he had been employed by that committee and where such a person subsequently takes up an appointment with a committee described in paragraph 12 or 13 of Schedule 1 to the 1983 Order he shall, for the purposes of the said section 54 as it has effect under paragraph (1) above, be treated as if he had been employed by that committee which shall, for those purposes and for purposes of the of the 1978 Act if that committee would not otherwise be so regarded, be treated as his new employer.
(3) Where a person described in paragraph (2) above who is appointed by a committee described in paragraph 12 or 13 of Schedule 1 to the 1983 Order was not an employee of the existing magistrates' courts committee for purposes of the 1978 Act, he shall be treated as if he had been an employee of that committee for those purposes for the period during which he held the appointment.