Section 9: Transfer of police officers to the Fire Service

(1) Not later than three months after the commencement of this Act, any police officer who is a member of a Police Fire Brigade established under the provisions of the Police Act must declare in writing whether or not he elects to transfer to the Fire Service, and if he so elects to transfer, may with the approval of the Fire Commissioner, and with the consent of the Inspector General, the Police Service Commission and the Federal Civil Service Commission be transferred from the Nigeria Police Force to the Fire Service.
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(2) For the purposes of this Act the length of service in the Nigeria Police Force of such transferred police officer shall be deemed to be length of service in the Fire Service.
(3) The conditions, of service of any such transferred police officer shall not, during the period in which he retains the rank in the Fire Service to which he was initially appointed at the date of his transfer, be altered or amended in such a manner or to such an extent as to render such conditions of service less advantageous to the said transferred police officer than they would have been should he have not so transferred and have remained a member of the Nigeria Police Force under the conditions of service applicable to police officers, under the Police Act, at the date of his transfer to the Fire Services.
(4) Whether any alteration of or amendment to the conditions of service of the Fire Service constitutes an infringement of the provisions of subsection (3) of this section shall be determined by the Federal Civil Service Commission.
(5) If the Federal Civil Service Commission determines that an alteration of or amendment to the conditions of service constitutes an infringement of the provisions of subsection (3) of this section they shall, as soon as is convenient, notify the Fire Commissioner of their decision. Whereupon the Fire Commissioner shall give notice in writing of such decision to each transferred police officer who is then serving in the rank to which he was initially appointed at the date of his transfer.
(6) Any such transferred police officer affected by such altered or amended conditions of service may, within one month from the date of his receipt of the notice from the Fire Commissioner under subsection (5) of this section, elect to-
(a) accept the altered or amended conditions of service and continue to serve subject thereto; or
(b) resign from the Fire Service.
(7) In the event of a transferred police officer resigning from the Fire Service under the provisions of subsection (6) (b) of this section, the said transferred police officer shall, for the purposes of gratuities, annual allowances and pensions under this Act, be deemed to have completed the full term of his enlistment at the date of his resignation.
(8) For the purpose of this section the words "transferred police officer" mean a member of the Nigeria Police Force who has transferred to the Fire Service under the provisions of subsection (1) of this section.