15Provisions relating to officers and employees of transferred units

(1) Every officer or other employee holding office immediately before the appointed day in the transferred unit shall, as from the appointed day, continue to be an officer or other employee of the corresponding unit of the transferee company by the same tenure and upon the same terms and conditions of service and with the same rights and privileges as to retirement benefits as would have been admissible to him if the transferred unit in which he was holding office had not been transferred and shall continue to do so unless and until such tenure and terms and conditions are duly altered by the transferee company.

(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), rules relating to the conditions of service and Standing Orders applicable to the officers or other employees referred to in sub-section (1), as immediately before the appointed day, shall continue to apply unless and until they are duly altered by the transferee company or other authority, as the case may be.