This note is not part of the order, but is intended to indicate its general effect.

This order, which comes into force on 10 September 2004, applies some of the employee provisions of the State Sector Act 1988 to employees of 2 Crown entities.

The employees affected are—

• employees of the Land Transport Safety Authority of New Zealand (the Authority) who are affected by a transfer of the Authority’s strategic policy, monitoring, and evaluation functions to the Ministry of Transport (the Ministry); and

• employees of Transfund New Zealand (Transfund) who are affected by a transfer of Transfund’s strategic policy function to the Ministry.

The provisions applied are—

• the “restriction on technical redundancy” section. As a result, an Authority or a Transfund employee who is offered equivalent employment with the Ministry, or who accepts other employment with the Ministry, is not entitled to compensation for technical redundancy:

• the section that disapplies some of the State Sector Act 1988 provisions that usually apply to appointments. As a result, the Ministry is not obliged to comply with some standard obligations, for example, the obligation to notify a vacancy before appointing an Authority or a Transfund employee:

• the collective employment agreement provisions. As a result, any collective employment agreement that relates to a transferring employee will continue to apply to the employee after the transfer, but only in so far as it relates to that employee.