Article 3 Transfer of Registration Officers
This article applies to any registration officer—
who immediately before 1st April 1996 holds office in or for a district or sub-district in the area of an old authority under an appointment made by that authority;
who would have continued to hold that office after 1st April 1996 but for the abolition of that authority; and
whose name is mentioned in column (1) of the Schedule to this Order.
Every registration officer to whom this article applies shall, on 1st April 1996—
be transferred from the old authority mentioned in column (2) of the Schedule to this Order opposite his name to the new authority mentioned in column (3) of that Schedule opposite his name; and
if an office is allocated to him in accordance with article 4 of this Order, become the holder of that office as if he had been appointed to it by the new authority.
All the rights, powers, duties and liabilities of the old authority under or in connection with the terms and conditions on which the registration office held office shall be transferred on 1st April 1996 to the new authority.
Anything done before 1st April 1996 by or in relation to the old authority in respect of those terms and conditions or the registration officer shall be deemed from that date to have been done by or in relation to the new authority.
Where a registration officer is allocated an office and becomes its holder any period of appointment in an office which counted at the time of the abolition of the old authority for the purposes of a pension or redundancy payment for him shall count for those purposes as a period of appointment in the allocated office and continuity of appointment shall not be broken by the change of office.
Nothing in this article affects any right of a registration officer to give notice that he will cease to hold office if a substantial change is made in his working conditions to his detriment, but no such right shall arise by reason only of the change in the appointing authority effected by this article.
Any provision in this Order for the transfer of a person not engaged whole-time as a registration officer shall apply only to his office as a registration officer.