Section 20: Application of the Pensions Reform Act.

(1) Service in the employment of the Institute shall be approved service under the Pension Reform Act, and accordingly, employees of the Institute shall, in respect of their service be entitled to pension and other retirement benefits as are prescribed in that Act.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1), nothing in this Act, shall prevent the appointment of a person to any office on terms, which preclude the grant of a pension and gratuity in respect of that office.
(3) For the purpose of the application of the Pension Reform Act, any power exercisable under it by the President or authority other than the Federal Government, not being the power to make regulations under section 32 of this Act, shall be vested in and exercisable by the Institute.
(4) Subject to subsection (2), the Pensions Reform Act, shall in its application of subsection (3), have effect as if the officer were in the public service of the Federation within the meaning of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999.