Transfer on secondment

(1) Any officer in the public or teaching service and any employee of any (public statutory) body whether such body be national or international may, with the approval of the appropriate authority or body and with his consent, be transferred on secondment to the service of the Council or from the service of the Council to the public or teaching service or any other body. National Accreditation (2) Where such transfer on secondment is effected the Council shall make, with the appropriate authority or body, such arrangements as may be necessary to preserve the rights of the officer or employee transferred to any pension, gratuity or other allowance for which he would have been eligible had he remained in the service of the Government, or of such other body, or of the Council, as the case may be. (3) Except where the Board may decide otherwise, a period of transfer on secondment shall not in any case exceed five years.