(1) This regulation applies to an AFP member if, immediately before the commencing time:

(a) the AFP member held a rank; and
(b) a declaration, under paragraph 9 (2) (b) of the former Act, was in force in relation to that rank.

(2) At the commencing time, the Commissioner is taken to have declared that, for subsections 9 (2A) and (2B) of the later Act, the member continues to hold that rank.
(3) Subregulation (2) ceases to apply to the AFP member when the Commissioner makes a declaration under subsection 9 (2A) of the later Act.