Section 7: Service in the Centre to be pensionable.

(1) Service at the Centre shall be approved service for the purpose of the Pensions Act and, accordingly, officers and other persons employed in the Centre shall be entitled to pensions, gratuities and other retirement benefits as prescribed thereunder.
(2) Nothing in this section shall prevent the appointment of a person on a temporary basis to any office at the Centre, on terms which preclude the grant of a pension and gratuity or other retirement benefit in respect of that office.
(3) For the purposes of the application of the provisions of the Pensions Act, any power exercisable thereunder by a Minister or other authority of the Government of the Federation, other than the power to make regulations under section 23 thereof, is hereby vested in and shall be exercisable by the Council and not by any other person or authority.