Section 9(2) provides that, in the case of new fixed-term employees recruited after the passing of the Bill, a fixed-term employee is employed by his or her employer or associated employer on two or more continuous fixed-term contracts and the date of the first such contract is subsequent to the date on which this Act is passed, the aggregate duration of such contracts will not exceed four years. Section 9(3) provides that where any term of a fixed-term contract purports to contravene sections 9(1) or section or 9(2), that term shall have no effect and the contract concerned shall become by operation of law a contract of indefinite duration.