Sch 4 para 2
(1) If a person who holds office as chief officer of a local probation board is appointed as chief executive of a probation trust, his period of Crown employment in that office (including any period mentioned in section 22(2) of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 (c. 43) for former chief probation officers) counts as a period of employment with the probation trust. (2) In this paragraph “ Crown employment ” means the employment in which the chief executive of a local probation board was, by virtue of paragraph 3(5) of Schedule 1 to that Act, treated as being employed for the purposes of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (c. 18).