Section 9: Application of Pensions Act.

(1) The Federal Civil Service Commission may by order published in the Federal Gazette declare the office of any person employed by the Board to be a pensionable office for the purposed of the Pensions Act.
(2) Subject to subsections (3) and (4) of this section, the Pensions Act shall in its application by virtue of the foregoing subsection to any office have effect as if the office were in the public service of the Federation within the meaning of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
(3) For the purpose of the application of the Pensions Act in accordance with subsection (2) of this section-
(a) paragraph (1) of section 7 of that Act (which confers on the Minister power to waive the requirement to give notice of desire to retire at the age of forty-five) shall have effect as if for the references to the Minister there were substituted references to the Board; and
(b) the power under section 9 (1) of the Act to require an officer to retire at any time after attaining the age of forty-five, subject to his being given six months' notice in writing, shall be exercisable by the Board and not by any other authority.
(4) Nothing in the foregoing provisions shall prevent the appointment by the Board of a person to any office on terms which preclude the grant of a pension or gratuity in respect of service in that office.