Notwithstanding anything in Schedule 1, the Board shall make to each person who immediately before the commencement of this paragraph was employed in the Northern Ireland Civil Service as a probation officer or as a probation assistant an offer of employment by the Board on terms which, taken as a whole, are not less favourable to that person than the terms on which he is employed on the date when the offer is made; and an offer made in pursuance of this paragraph shall not be revocable during the period of three months beginning with the date on which the offer is made.

Any person to whom an offer is made under this paragraph shall not, if retired from the Northern Ireland Civil Service on redundancy in consequence of this Order, be eligible for any compensation benefit in respect of that redundancy payable under any scheme made under Article 3 of the Superannuation (Northern Ireland) Order 1972F1, but this sub-paragraph is without prejudice to any other provision of such a scheme.