s 18 Transfer of employees
18.—(1) As from 15 October 1991, such persons who immediately before that date —(a) are employed by the National Theatre Trust; or (b) are employed by the Government for the purpose of carrying out any of the functions and services of the Arts Division in the Ministry of Information and the Arts which are similar to any functions vested in the Council by this Act, as the Minister may determine, must be transferred to the service of the Council on terms not less favourable than those the person would have enjoyed had the person remained in the service of the National Theatre Trust or the Government, as the case may be. (2) Despite subsection (1), such persons transferred to the service of the Council from the service of the Government, as the Minister may determine, must before 15 October 1991 be given the option of remaining in the service of the Government.