(6) An Order under this section does not render defective any legal proceedings by or against an ambulance service. Any legal proceedings which might have been continued or commenced against an ambulance service in relation to assets, powers, works, rights, liabilities or obligations which have been transferred may be continued or commenced against the ambulance service to which the assets, powers, works, rights, liabilities or obligations were transferred. (7) Any employee of an ambulance service who is transferred to an ambulance service created under this section— (a) is to be, subject to the Order creating the service, an employee of the service created under this section; and (b) is to be continued to be employed on terms and conditions no less favourable than the terms and conditions applicable immediately before the transfer; and (c) retains all rights, benefits and entitlements accrued up to the time of the transfer. (8) Before making a recommendation to the Governor in Council that an ambulance service should be abolished or removed from the list in Schedule 1, the Minister must— (a) cause careful inquiry to be made into the intended abolition or removal; and (b) give the board of the ambulance service an opportunity to be heard; and (c) at least 28 days before submitting the recommendation to the Governor in Council, give to the board of the ambulance service notice in writing setting out the substance of the recommendation and stating that the