Section 31: Transitory provisions relating to Government officers.

(1) Officers on the established staff of the Government who are employed in any Government colliery undertaking immediately before the vesting day shall be seconded from the service of the Government to the service of the Corporation.
(2) Subject to such limitation upon their periods of service as may be provided by their existing terms of service as Government officers, and subject to the provisions of subsection (6) of this section, the period for which such officers are seconded shall, in the first instance, be a period of two years reckoned from the vesting day.
(3) The Corporation shall within the period aforesaid offer to each such officer who is still seconded to the service of the Corporation employment by the Corporation upon such terms and conditions as the Corporation may determine.
(4) Where an officer accepts the terms and conditions offered, his service with the Government shall cease from the date of acceptance.
(5) The Corporation may, from time to time, with the approval of the Federal Civil Service Commission or of the State Civil Service Commission, as the case may be, and the consent of the officer concerned, extend any period for which an officer is seconded upon terms to be agreed between such Civil Service Commission, the Corporation and the officer.
(6) The Corporation may at any time by notice in writing to the Federal Civil Service Commission or of the State Civil Service Commission, as the case may be, and to the officer concerned terminate the secondment of an officer.