Section 9: Application of Pensions Act.

(1)
It is hereby declared that service in the Board shall be pensionable under the Pensions Act, and accordingly, employees of the Board shall, in respect of their services in the Board, be entitled to pensions, gratuities and other retirement benefits as are prescribed thereunder.
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(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, nothing in this Act shall prevent the appoint­ment of a person to any office on terms which preclude the grant of a pension or gratuity in respect of that office.
(3) For the purposes of the Act, any power exercisable thereunder by a Minister or authority of the Federal Government (not being the power to make regulations under section 23 thereof) is hereby vested in and shall be exercisable by the Board and not by any other person or authority.
(4) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, the Pensions Act shall, in its application by virtue of the subsection (1) of this section to any office, have effect as if the office were in the civil service of the Federation within the meaning of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended.