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

This order, which comes into force on 1 February 2015, removes the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority from the list of departments of the Public Service in Schedule 1 of the State Sector Act 1988 (the Act), and instead lists it in Schedule 1A of that Act as a departmental agency hosted by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.

The order applies some of the employee provisions of the Act to employees affected by the transfer of functions from the department to the departmental agency. The provisions are—

• section 30E, which relates to restriction of compensation for technical redundancy:

• section 30F, which provides that sections 60 to 61B and 65 of the Act do not apply to certain appointments following a transfer of functions.

Sections 30E and 30F of the Act were repealed by the State Sector Amendment Act 2013 with effect from 18 July 2013. However, under section 61AB of the Act, sections 30E and 30F continue to apply until the end of 18 July 2016.

The order applies sections 30H and 30I of the Act, which concern consequential changes to references to departments, employees, and chief executives following reorganisations, to things coming into force, entered into, or created during a transitional period, beginning on 1 February 2015 and ending on 18 April 2016, after the transfer of functions from the department to the departmental agency.