- Laws of Fiji

Last Updated: 14 February 2022

[FNU 46A] Training and Productivity Authority of Fiji46A

46A

(1) At the commencement of this Act any reference in any written law to Fiji National Training Council or Training and Productivity Authority of Fiji or Authority in its context is for all purposes deemed to be replaced and read as a reference to the Fiji National University.

(2) All real and personal property which immediately before the commencement of this Act was vested in or belonged to the Training and Productivity Authority of Fiji, without conveyance, transfer or assignment and, subject to this Act, becomes the property of the University.

(3) The Registrar of Titles or any person responsible for the keeping of any register under any written law must, on the written request of the University and on payment of the appropriate fee, make entries in the register and on any outstanding documents of title and generally do all things necessary to give effect to this Act.

(4) At the commencement of this Act, all contracts, guarantees, undertakings and securities entered into by or on behalf of the Training and Productivity Authority of Fiji immediately before the commencement date, is taken to have been entered into or given by or to the University and may be enforced against or by the University.

(5) This Act deems the decisions made by the Councils of the Training and Productivity Authority of Fiji prior to the commencement of this Act, as being made under the provisions of the Fiji National University Act 2009 to the extent that the decisions are not inconsistent with the provisions of the Fiji National University Act 2009 and do not undermine the decision making powers conferred on the Council, the Senate or other offices of the University established under the Fiji National University Act 2009.

(6) On the commencement date, all tenured or permanent employees of the Training and Productivity Authority of Fiji shall be deemed to be employed by the University on the same terms and conditions on which each such person was employed prior to the commencement of this Act.

(7) At the commencement of this Act, all contracted employees of the Training and Productivity Authority of Fiji shall be deemed to be employed by the University for the balance of their contractual terms on the same terms and conditions on which the person was employed by the former entity, and thereafter, to be employed under the terms and conditions of employment of the University.

(8) All rights, including leave entitlements, accrued or accruing to the person as a staff member of the Training and Productivity Authority of Fiji up to the commencement date, shall be retained by the staff member after the commencement of this Act.

(9) Section 46A(6) to (8) are valid to the extent that there is no change in terms and conditions of any category of staff member, including leave entitlements, which is outside the respective institution’s budgetary and financial provisions, or that are designed to take advantage of the merger of the Training and Productivity Authority of Fiji with the University.

(10) The Minister may before or after the commencement of this Act give policy directives to the Council as he or she deems necessary in relation to the terms and conditions of employment of the staff of the Training and Productivity Authority of Fiji at the commencement of this Act.

(11) All subsidiary laws of the Training and Productivity Authority of Fiji Act 2002 are hereby deemed, in context, to become the subsidiary laws of the Fiji National University (Amendment) Act 2010 mutatis mutandis.

[s 46A insrt Decree 58 of 2010 s 29, effective 29 November 2010]