Section 12: Pension.

(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of the Pensions Act, it is hereby declared that service in the National Assembly shall be approved service in the public service of the Federation for the purposes of that Act and, accordingly, officers and other staff of the National Assembly shall in respect of their services in the National Assembly be entitled to such pensions, gratuities and other retirement benefits as are prescribed in that Act.
(2) For the purposes of the application of the provisions of the Pensions Act, any power exercisable by a Minister or other authority of the Government of the Federation (not being the power to make regulations under section 23 of that Act) are hereby vested in and shall be exercisable by the Commission and not by any other person or authority.
(3) Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this section shall prevent the appointment of a person to any office in the National Assembly on terms which preclude the grant of a pension or gratuity in respect of service in that office.