(1) Save as otherwise provided in section 13, all officers and other employees of the existing University holding office as such immediately before the commencement of this Act shall, on such commencement, become the officers or other employees of the corresponding University and such officers or other employees shall be divided between those Universities in accordance with the following principles, namely:--
         (a) those officers or other employees of the existing University who are holding office in, or in connection with, any property or unit of the existing University in the State of Haryana shall become the officers or other employees of the Haryana Agricultural University;
         (b) every other officer or other employee of the existing University, shall become the officer or other employee of the Punjab Agricultural University.
     (2) Every officer or other employee of the existing University shall, on and from the commencement of this Act hold his office or service in the corresponding University on the same terms and conditions and with the same rights to pension, provident fund, gratuity and other matters as would have been admissible to him if the existing University had not been dissolved, and continue to do so unless and until his employment in the corresponding University is duly terminated or until his remuneration and terms or conditions of service are duly altered by the corresponding University.
     (3) For the persons who, immediately before the commencement of this Act, were the trustees for pension, provident, gratuity or other like fund, constituted for the officers or other employees of the existing University, there shall be substituted as trustees such persons as the appropriate Government may by general or special order, specify.
     (4) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947), or any other law for the time being in force, the transfer of the services of any officer or other employee from the existing University to a corresponding University shall not entitle such officer or other employee to any compensation, whether under this Act or under any other law for the time being in force, and no such claim shall be entertained by any court, tribunal or other authority.