(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), anything done or commenced or any decision made in terms of the
repealed Act which immediately before the fixed date had or was capable of acquiring effect shall continue to
have or be capable of acquiring, as the case may be, effect as if it had been done, commenced or made in terms
of this Act.
33 Transitional provisions
(1) In this section
“transferred member” means a person who is transferred from the Public Service to the Health Service in
terms of subsection (2).
(2) The persons who are specified in section 9(a), (b) and (c) and who, immediately before the fixed date,
were members of the Public Service shall be deemed to have been transferred to the Health Service on the
fixed date.
(3) All persons transferred to the Health Service in terms of subsection (2) shall be employed on terms
and conditions not less favourable than those that applied immediately before the fixed date.
(4) Any regulation, notice, circular or other document which, immediately before the fixed date, regulated
the conditions of service of any class of transferred members in terms of the Public Service Act [Chapter
16:04] shall continue, on and after that date, to regulate the conditions of service of
(a) those transferred members; and
(b) any persons who join the Health Service after the fixed date and who are in the same class as those
transferred members;
until the Board, replaces the regulation, notice, circular or other document concerned or otherwise alters the
conditions of service concerned in terms of this Act.
(5) Any reference to the Public Service Commission in any regulation, notice, circular or other document
referred to in subsection (3) shall be construed, with necessary modifications, as a reference to the Board.
(6) The transfer of persons from the Public Service to the Health Service in terms of this section shall be
deemed to involve also the transfer of the offices held by such persons from the Public Service to the Health
Service, and accordingly any person who refuses to be so transferred shall be entitled to the terminal benefits
upon resignation from, not abolition of, an office in the Public Service.
(7) At such date as shall be fixed by the Minister by notice in a statutory instrument, persons in the
employment of the State not referred to in subsection (2) who are concerned with the provision of health
services not referred to in subsection (2) may be transferred to the Health Service.
FIRST SCHEDULE (Section 2)
PART I
CENTRAL HOSPITALS
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Parirenyatwa Hospital.
United Bulawayo Hospital.
Harare Hospital.
Mpilo Hospital.
Ingutsheni Hospital.
Chitungwiza Hospital.
PROVINCIAL HOSPITALS
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Bindura Hospital.
Chinhoyi Hospital.
Gweru Hospital.
Gwanda Hospital.
Marondera Hospital.
Masvingo Hospital.
Mutare Hospital.
SECOND SCHEDULE (Section 5(3) and 19(6))
PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO THE BOARD AND HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT BOARDS
Paragraph
1. Interpretation.
2. Disqualification for appointment to Board.