Section 139

Every person including the Commissioner and the Deputy Commissioner who, immediately before the appointed day, was seconded by the Government to serve the Council as an officer or servant in the Secretariat of the Council, may on that day be employed as an officer or servant, as the case may be, of the Commission pursuant to subsection (2) of section 9 of this Act, upon terms and conditions not less favourable than those obtaining immediately before the appointed day, unless the officer or servant elects to return to the service of the Government.