Continuation of terms and conditions of appointment4
1
The terms and conditions of appointment of a rent officer to whom this Order applies shall not be terminated by the abolition of the old authority whose proper officer made the appointment but shall have effect on and after 1st April 1996 as if that appointment was by the proper officer of the new authority by whom that person is, or is treated as having been, appointed.
2
Without prejudice to paragraph (1)—
a
all rights, powers, duties and liabilities of the old authority or its proper officer, as referred to in paragraph (1), under, or in connection with, the terms and conditions on which the rent officer held office shall be transferred on 1st April 1996 respectively to the new authority or its proper officer as referred to in that paragraph; and
b
anything done before 1st April 1996 by or in relation to the old authority or its proper officer, as referred to in paragraph (1), in respect of the terms and conditions or the rent officer shall be deemed from that date to have been done by or in relation to the new authority or, as the case may be, its proper officer as referred to in that paragraph.
3
Nothing in this article affects any right of a rent officer to terminate his appointment but no such right shall arise by reason only of the abolition of the old authority whose proper officer appointed him.