13(1)The Crown Agents may appoint, on such terms and conditions as they think fit, such officers and servants of the Crown Agents as they think fit.
(2)In the case of any person to be employed by them on and after the appointed day who immediately before that day was employed by the unincorporated Agents, the Crown Agents shall ensure that, so long as he is engaged in duties reasonably comparable to those in which he was engaged immediately before he joined the Crown Agents' staff, the terms and conditions of his employment, taken as a whole, are not less favourable than those which he then enjoyed.
(3)In relation to any person who—
(a)is in the employment of the unincorporated Agents immediately before the appointed day ; and
(b)is as from that day employed by the Crown Agents,
Schedule 13 to the [1978 c. 44.] Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 (ascertainment, for the purposes of that Act and section 119 of the [1975 c. 71.] Employment Protection Act 1975, of the length of an employee's period of employment and whether that employment has been continuous) shall have effect as if his employment under the unincorporated Agents had been Crown employment within the meaning of paragraph 19 of that Schedule.