After the enactment of the Act, every person working in the PHED became the employ ee of the Kerala Water Authority (for short 'the Authority ') by virtue of Section 19(1) of the Act, which reads as under: "Transfer of employees to the Authority Save as otherwise provided in this section, every person who was employed in the Public Health Engineering Department of the Government shall, on and from the appointed day become an employee of the Authority and shall hold his office or service therein by the same tenure, at the same remuneration and upon the same terms and conditions, and with the same rights and privileges as to pension, gratuity and other matters as he would have held the same on the appointed day if this Act had not come into force and shall continue to do so until his employment in the Authority is terminated or until his remuneration or other terms and conditions of service are revised or altered by the Authority under or in pursuance of any law or in accordance with any provision which for the time being governs his service: Provided that nothing contained in this sub section shall apply to an employee in the cadres of the Administrative ? 565 Officers, Financial Assistants Divisional Accounts, Typists and Stenographers, who, by notice in writing given to the Government and the Authority within such time as the Govern ment may, by general or special order, specify, intimates his intention of not becoming an employee of the Authority: Provided further than an employee referred to in the preced ing proviso shall continue to be an employee under the Government and shall be provided elsewhere in any post or other service under the Government.