Section 7: Service in the Council to be pensionable

(1) Service in the Council shall be approved service for the purpose of this Act and officers and other employees in the Council shall be entitled to such pensions and other retirement benefits as prescribed by the Pensions Reform Act.
(2) Nothing in this Act shall prevent the Council from appointing a person to the office on terms which preclude the grant of pension and gratuity in respect of that office.
(3) For the purpose of the application of the Pensions Reform Act, any power exercised by the Minister or other authority of the Government of the Federation, other than the power to make regulations under section 15 is vested in, and shall be exercisable by, the Council and not by any other person or authority.