26.—The Act of 1973 is amended—

(a) in subsection (1) of section 3 by the deletion of paragraph (c), and

(b) in the First Schedule by the insertion after paragraph 13 of the following paragraph:

“14. For the avoidance of doubt, a civil servant shall be considered as having given continuous service, notwithstanding the fact that the civil servant may have served in more than one Department or Scheduled Office provided that the service would otherwise, by virtue of the provisions of this Schedule, be considered to be continuous.”.