Section 6: Staff

(1) The Board shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, have power-
(a) to appoint such other employees of the Authority as it may determine;
(b) to pay the employees such remuneration and allowances as the Board may determine; and
(c) as regards any employees in whose case it may determine so to do, to pay to or in respect of them, such pensions and gratuities or to provide and maintain for them, such superannuation schemes (whether contributory or not) as the Board may determine.
(2) If the Board thinks it expedient that any vacancy in the staff of the Authority should be filled by a person holding office in the public services of the Federation, it shall inform the Minister responsible for the Federal Civil Service Commission to that effect and thereafter the Federal Civil Service Commission may make necessary arrangements for the filling of the vacancy by way of secondment or transfer.
(3) Where a member of the public service of 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 accrue to him.
(4) A person seconded under subsection (2) of this section may elect to be transferred to the staff of the Authority, in which case any previous service in the public service as aforesaid shall count as service for the purpose of any pension subsequently payable by the Authority.
(5) Where a person who is a member of the public service of the Federation is transferred to the service of the Authority, then, if the Federal Civil Service Commission so directs-
(a) that person's former service in the public service of the Federation shall be taken into account in applying the provisions of the Pensions Act; and
(b) that Act shall have effect as if that person's subsequent service with the Authority were service in that public service.