Transitional
5 Where, before or after the coming into force of section 3 of this Act but before that section ceases to be in force, an employee of a department or portion of the public service designated pursuant to paragraph 7.2(1)(a) of the Public Sector Compensation Act, as enacted by section 3 of this Act, becomes a surplus employee referred to in paragraph 7.2(1)(b) of the Public Sector Compensation Act, as enacted by section 3 of this Act, but has not yet ceased to be such an employee, the employee, on the coming into force of section 3 of this Act, becomes subject to the program within the meaning of section 7.2 of the Public Sector Compensation Act, as enacted by section 3 of this Act, and that section continues to apply to that employee, whether or not that section ceases to be in force.