43SMinister to be satisfied as to form of Northern Territory law

43S  Minister to be satisfied as to form of Northern Territory law

 (1) Where the Minister is satisfied that the laws of the Northern Territory relating to the terms and conditions of service of persons appointed to be officers, or engaged as employees, of the Teaching Service of the Northern Territory make provision as set out in subsection (2), the Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, declare that he is satisfied that the laws of the Northern Territory comply with the requirements of this section.

 (2) The provision to be made for the purposes of subsection (1) is provision:

 (a) for a transferred officer to be deemed, by virtue of his transfer, to have been duly appointed, on the date of his transfer, to be an officer of the Teaching Service of the Northern Territory:

 (i) except where subparagraph (ii) applies‑without probation; or

 (ii) if his appointment as an officer of the Commonwealth Teaching Service has not been confirmed before that date‑upon probation;

upon terms entitling him to continue to be employed in the Northern Territory Teaching Service otherwise than for a term of years;

 (b) for a transferred officer, other than a transferred officer referred to in paragraph (c), to be entitled, upon his transfer, to be paid salary at a rate not less than the rate at which salary was payable to him in respect of the position held by him in the Commonwealth Teaching Service immediately before the date of his transfer;

 (c) for a transferred officer who is, on the date of his transfer, performing duty for an authority, body or person by reason of his having been authorized to do so under this Act:

 (i) to be entitled to continue, on and after that date, toperform duty for that authority, body or person for the remainder of theperiod for which he has been authorized to do so as if he had been authorized to do so in accordance with the terms and conditions of his service in the Teaching Service of the Northern Territory and upon terms and conditions similar to the terms and conditions upon which he was authorized to do so under this Act;

 (ii) to be deemed to have been granted, on the date of his transfer, leave of absence without pay from the Teaching Service of the Northern Territory for the period commencing on that date and ending on the last day of the period for which he is to be treated as authorized to perform duty for that authority, body or person; and

 (iii) to be entitled, upon the termination of the leave of absence referred to in subparagraph (ii), to be paid salary at the rate thatthe appropriate authority of the Northern Territory determines to be theappropriate rate having regard to the rate at which salary was payable to him in respect of the position held by him in the Commonwealth Teaching Service immediately before he commenced to perform duty for that authority, body or person and the period during which he performed that duty;