2. Every officer and servant who was employed in the

Department of National Housing on the day immediately preceding April I. 1979 (other than an officer or servant who was in a transferable service) and who was subsequently employed by the National Housing Development Authority

(hereinafter referred to as the '"Authority") shall notwithstanding his employment by the Authority, be deemed to have continued in office as a public officer in the

Department of National Housing from the date on which he was employed by the Authority until the end of his period of service with the Authority and shall, if his period of service with the Authority, when added to his period of service in the Department of National Housing, amounts to ten years or more, be eligible, at the end of his period of service with the Authority, for the grant of a pension under the Minutes of Pension.