102   Continuity of service for determining entitlements

(1)  This section applies for the purpose of determining a transferred employee’s entitlements as an employee of the new employer under an industrial instrument or the industrial relations legislation.

(2)  For the purpose of determining those entitlements:

(a)  the continuity of the employee’s contract of employment is taken not to have been broken by the transfer of business, and

(b)  a period of service with the former employer (including service before the commencement of this section) is taken to be a period of service with the new employer.

(3)  Service with the former employer includes service that because of this section or a former Act is taken to be service with that employer as a result of a previous transfer of the business.