Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981

8 (1) The Commission shall appoint—

(a) with the approval of the Secretary of State, a chief officer and

(b) such number of other employees as they may with the approval of the Secretary of State and the Minister determine.

(2) The Commission shall pay to their employees such remuneration and allowances as they may with the approval of the Secretary of State and the Minister determine.

(3) In the case of any person to be employed by them on and after the appointed day who immediately before that day was a civil servant, the Commission shall ensure that, so long as he is engaged in duties reasonably comparable to those in which he was engaged immediately before the coming into force of this Schedule, the terms and conditions of his employment, taken as a whole, are not less favourable than those which he then enjoyed.

(4) In relation to any person who—

(a) is a civil servant before the appointed day ; and

(b) is as from that day employed by the Commission,

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 service as a civil servant had been employment under the Commission.