(1) Save in accordance with a collective agreement negotiated with a recognised trade union or staff association, the Commission shall accept into its employment on the establishment day each person (other than the chief executive of the National Consumer Agency) who immediately before that day was a member of the staff of a dissolved body on such terms and conditions of service relating to remuneration as are not less favourable than the terms and conditions of service relating to remuneration to which the person was subject immediately before that day.
(2) The terms and conditions to which a person is subject upon his or her becoming a member of the staff of the Commission in accordance with subsection (1) shall be deemed to have been determined by the Commission in accordance with subsection (2) of section 28.
(3) In relation to a person transferred to the staff of the Commission under subsection (1), previous service with a dissolved body shall be reckonable for the purpose of, but
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