Section 13: Pension

(1) Service in the Commission shall be pensionable under the Pension Reform Act and accordingly, employees of the Commission shall, in respect of their services in the Commission, be entitled to pensions, gratuities and other retirement benefits as are prescribed in that Act.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1), nothing in this Act shall prevent the appointment of a person to any office on terms which preclude the grant of pension and gratuity in respect of that office.
(3) For the purposes of the application of the Pension Reform Act, any power exercisable under it by the Minister or authority of the Federal Government, not being the power to make regulations under section 23, is vested in and shall be exercisable by the Commission and not by any other person or authority.
(4) Subject to subsection (2), the Pensions Reform Act shall in its application by virtue of the provisions of subsection (1) 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.