Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) (a) As soon as may be after the appointed day, the Government may, setvice of dter consulting the Board, direct, by general or special order, that such of the employees of the Governinsnt who inmediately before the appointed day were serving ern"-' under the Government s~lely or ixaidy for or in comection with the affairs ef the port shall stand ailottrd to serve in connection with the a3airs of the Board with &ect on and from such dste a, nray b.: s?scih~d in such order : Provided that no such order shall be issued in respcct of any such employee without his consent. (b) With ell zct on and from the date specified in the order under clause (a), the persons specified in such order shall become employees of the Board and shall cease to be employees of the Government. (2) Every person refemd to in sub-section (1) shall hold office under the Board by the same ten~,re, at the same remuneration and uwn the same rights and privileges as to pension or gratmty, a any, and other matters as he would have held the Sam= on the date specified in the order under clause (a) of sub-section (I), as if this Act had not been passed. (3) The liability to pay pension and gratuity to the persons referred to in sub-section (1) shall 1)e the liability of the Board. (4) The sums at the credit of the provident fund accounts of the persons referred to in sub-section (1) as on the appointed day shall be transferred to the Board and the liability in respect of the said provident fund accounts shall b: the liability of the floard. (5) There shall ,oe paid to the Board out of the accumulations in the super- annl;:ition fund and other like funds, if any, of the Government, such amounts as have been credited to the superannuation fund or other like funds, if any, on behalf of the persons referred to in sub-section (1). The amounts so paid shall form part of the superannuation fund or other like funds, if any, that may be est,blishcd by thc Board for the benefit of its employees. Ex~sting r a w ,