First meeting of the Authority  Quorum requirement of meetings  Application of general provisions of the Local Government Act 1972  PART 4  Officers and employees of the Authority  Continuity of employment and transfer of employment, rights, powers, duties and liabilities  Employee objection to employment by the Authority  ( a ) 1972 c. 70; section 85 was amended by S.I.2001/2327, S.I.2002/808, S.I.2002/808, S.I. 2008/172, S.I. 2012/1714, S.I.  2012/2913; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant. Section 99 was amended by S.I. 2009/3318; there are  other amending instruments but none is relevant. Section 101 was amended by 2001/1517, S.I. 2002/803, S.I.2008/917,  S.I.2009/400, S.I.2009/3318, S.I. 2012/1008. Section 102 was amended by S.I.2001/1517,S.I. 2002/803, S.I. 2012/1008;  there are other instruments but none are relevant. Section 103 was amended by S.I. 1996/396; there are other amending  instruments, but none is relevant, Section 120 was amended by S.I. 2011/3019; there are other amending instruments but  none is relevant, Part 6 of Schedule 12 was amended by S.1. 1992/760, S.I. 2011/3019.  6 (c) the employee is not be treated, for any purpose, as having been dismissed by either of the  existing authorities.  (b) the employee’s contract of employment with the existing authorities is terminated on 1st  April 2021, and  (a) The employee’s contract of employment and any rights, powers, duties and liabilities  under or in connection with it do not transfer under paragraph 18(1) and (2);  (a) held as soon as is practicable, and  (b) convened by the clerk to the Hampshire Fire and Rescue Authority.  15.  The first meeting of the Authority must be—  16.  At a meeting of the Authority the quorum is one half of the total number of members of the  Authority, or such greater number of members as the Authority may determine, including at least  one member by any two of the constituent authorities.  17.  Sections 85(1), (2) and (3), 99 (in so far as it relates to Part 6 of Schedule 12), 101 to 103,  106, 120, 121 and 123 of, and Part 6 of Schedule 12 to, the Local Government Act 1972( a ) apply  to the Authority and its members as if references in those provisions to a principal council or a  local authority were references to the Authority.  18. —(1) Subject to paragraph 19, the contract of employment of any person employed by the  existing authorities immediately before 1st April 2021 shall have effect on or after 1st April 2021  as if originally made between the person so employed and the Authority.  (2) All of the rights, powers, duties and liabilities of the existing authorities under or in  connection with any such contract are transferred to the Authority.  (3) Any act or omission before 1st April 2021, in relation to the transfer of that contract, is  deemed to have been an act or omission in relation to the Authority.  19.  Where an employee informs the existing authorities that they object to becoming employed  by the Authority– 