(1) Every officer or other employee, who, immediately before the appointed day, is employed in, or in connection with the affairs of, the Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital, or, as the case may be, the Kalavati Saran Hospital, shall become, as from the appointed day, an officer or other employee, as the case may be, of the Central Government, and shall hold his office by the same tenure, at the same remuneration and upon the same terms and conditions and with the same rights and privileges as to pension, gratuity and other matters as he would have held, if this Act had not been enacted, and shall continue to do so unless and until his employment under the Central Government is duly terminated or until his remuneration, terms and conditions duly altered by the Central Government:
Provided that, if the alteration so made is not acceptable to any such officer or other employee, his employment may be terminated by the Central Government on payment to him of an amount equivalent to three months' remuneration in the case of permanent employees and one month's remuneration in the case of other employees:
Provided further that nothing contained in this sub-section shall apply to any officer or other employee who has, by notice in writing given to the Central Government within thirty days next following the appointed day, intimated his intention of not becoming an officer or other employee of the Central Government.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947), or in any other law for the time being in force, the transfer of the services of any officer or other employee, employed in, or in connection with the affairs of, the Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital or the Kalavati Saran Hospital to the Central Government shall not entitle any such officer or other employee to any compensation under that Act, or any other law, and no such claim shall be entertained by any court, tribunal or other authority.
(3) For the persons who, immediately before the appointed day, were the trustees for any person, provident or gratuity fund or any other like fund constituted for the officers or other employees of the Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital and the Kalavati Saran Hospital, there shall be substituted as trustees such persons as the Central Government may, by general or special order, specify.