Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (Restructuring) Act 1998 (No. 106 of 1998).

The Act, consisting of 9 sections, concerns transfer of employees from the Ministry to two specified State companies involved in forestry or meat inspection. It establishes that every person: who is employed in the Ministry immediately before the date of commencement of this Act; and who is carrying out duties that on or after that date are to be carried out, in whole or in part, by a new company; and whose transfer to the relevant new company is agreed to by the company and the chief executive of the Ministry— is deemed to have transferred to the relevant new company on the date of commencement of this Act. The transfer of any employee by this section is subject to any relevant transfer provisions of the employment contract applying to that employee. This section applies notwithstanding section 61A of the State Sector Act 1988. A new section in the Forests Act 1949 concerns the appointment under the State Sector Act 1988 of such Forestry Officers (in State companies) as may be required for the purposes of that Act.