Public Servants (Continuity of Service) Act, 1938

Effect of the Constitution on conditions of employment of transferred officers.

3.—If and in so far as the coming into operation of the Constitution effected a change in the conditions of employment of any public servant who is a transferred officer, whichever of the following provisions is applicable shall apply and have effect, that is to say:—

(a) such change shall not be or ever have been a change whereby the position of such officer was materially altered to his detriment within the meaning of sub-section (2) of section 14 of the Civil Service (Transferred Officers) Compensation Act, 1929 (No. 36 of 1929);

(b) such change shall not be or ever have been a change whereby the position of such officer in any particular grade or situation was materially altered to his detriment within the meaning of sub-section (3) of the said section 14 .