(1) The Institute may employ any other staff necessary for the performance of its functions.
(2) The terms and conditions of employment of staff of the Institute are as determined by the Institute.
(3) An employee of the Institute who, immediately before that employment, was an employee in the public service employed exclusively in connection with the functions of the forensic psychiatry service in the Department of Health continues to be an employee in the public service while an employee of the Institute for the purposes of long service leave.
(4) An employee of the Institute who, immediately before employment, was an officer within the meaning of the State Superannuation Act 1988 continues, subject to that Act, to be such an officer while an employee of the Institute.