Section 8: Other staff of the Centre

(1) The Board may appoint such other persons as employees of the Centre as it may consider necessary.
(2) Where the Board thinks it expedient that a staff vacancy in the Centre should be filled by a person holding an office in any of the public services in the Federation, the Board may appoint that person by way of transfer or secondment from the service concerned.
(3) Where a person is seconded pursuant to subsection (2) of this section, he shall be notified of the terms and conditions of the secondment, and the secondment shall be without prejudice to any pension rights which, but for the secondment, would still accrue to him.
(4) A person seconded under subsection (2) of this section, may elect to be transferred to the staff of the Centre in which case any previous service in any of the public service shall count as service for the purposes of any pension subsequently payable to the person under the Centre.
(5) Where a person is transferred from a public service to the Centre-
(a) that person's former service in the relevant public service shall be taken into account in applying the provisions of the Pensions Act; and
(b) the Pensions Act shall have effect as if that person's service with the Centre were service in the relevant public service.