Section 9: Pensions

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