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(4) Staff transferred in accordance with the regulations shall be exempt from any requirement to the effect that before a person is appointed to Her Majesty’s Home Civil Service a certificate of qualification must be issued in respect of him by the Civil Service Commissioners.

(5) For the purposes of Schedule 13 to the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 (as it applies for the purposes of computing an employee’s period and continuity of employment for the purposes of that Act and any other enactment) in its application to a person who is transferred to the staff of the Director as a result of this Part—
 * (a) the period of his employment in the employment from which he is transferred shall count as a period of Crown employment; and
 * (b) the change of employment shall not break the continuity of his employment.

(6) Where a person ceases to be a member of the staff of an authority—
 * (a) on becoming a member of the staff of the Service in consequence of any regulations made under this section; or
 * (b) having unreasonably refused to be transferred in pursuance of the regulations;

he shall not, on ceasing to be a member of the staff of the authority, be treated for the purposes of any regulations or scheme made under the Superannuation Act 1972 as having ceased to hold his employment by reason of redundancy.

(7) In this section “authority” means any police authority or other authority or body mentioned in section 17(6)(c) or (d) of this Act; and “police authority”, in relation to the metropolitan police district, means the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis.

12.—(1) The Attorney General, after consulting such bodies representing authorities or persons employed by authorities as appear to him to be concerned, shall not later than three months after the passing of this Act, establish a staff commission for the purpose of—
 * (a) considering the general effect of this Part on staff employed by any authority wholly or mainly in connection with the discharge of prosecution functions; and
 * (b) advising the Attorney General and Director on the arrangements necessary to safeguard the interests of such staff.