Section 4: Staff generally.

(1) Subject to this Act, each Commodity Board may appoint such persons as members of staff of the Board as it considers necessary and may approve conditions of service including provision for the payment of pensions.
(2) If the Board thinks it expedient that any vacancy in the staff of the Board concerned should be filled by a person holding office in any of the public services in the Federation, the Board shall inform the appropriate Civil Service Commission to that effect to enable the Board to fill the vacancy by way of secondment or transfer.
(3) Where a member of any of the civil services in the Federation is seconded under 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 under subsection (2) of this section may elect to be transferred to the staff of the Board concerned in which case any previous service in the civil service shall count as service for the purposes of pensions subsequently payable by the Board.