5The *Statutes (Repeals and Minor Amendments) Act 2003* s. 91(5) and (7) read as follows:

5 The *Statutes (Repeals and Minor Amendments) Act 2003* s. 91(5) and (7) read as follows: (5) The amendments made by subsections (2) and (3) do not affect the appointment, or terms and conditions of service, of a person appointed and holding office under section 9 of the *Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1971*, as in force immediately before the commencement of this section, except that the person is taken to have been appointed under section 9 of that Act, as amended by this section. (7) The purported exercises by the Governor of the power conferred by section 9(1) of the *Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1971*, as in force immediately before the commencement of this section, to appoint officers on secondment are validated and all such appointments are taken to be secondments effected by the Commissioner under section 9(2a) of the *Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1971* as if that subsection had been in force at the time the appointments were purportedly made.