Provisions as to continuance of officers in the same posts.

Every person who immediately before the appointed day is holding or discharging the duties of any post or office in connection with the affairs of the existing Union territory shall continue to hold the same post or office and shall be deemed, on and from that day, to have been duly appointed on the same terms and conditions of appointment and on the same tenure to that post or office by the Government of, or the other appropriate authority, in the State of Goa or of the Union, as the case may be: Provided that nothing in this section shall be deemed to prevent a competent authority, on or after the appointed day, from passing in relation to such person, any order affecting his continuance in such post or office.