Section 21: Transitional provisions.

(1) At the commencement of this Act, the Management Services Department of the Office of Establishments and Management Services and the operational arms of the Productivity, Prices and Incomes Board located in-
(a) the Federal Ministry of Finance; or
(b) the Federal Ministry of Employment, Labour and Productivity; or
(c) the Federal Ministry of Commerce,
shall cease to exist and their rights and obligations shall reside in the Commission established by this Act.
(2) Accordingly, the existing staff of the agencies dissolved by subsection (1) of this section, shall be deemed to have been absorbed by the Commission, so however that-
(a) a staff may opt out of the Commission within sixty days of the coming into force of this Act; or
(b) the Commission may, on advice, dispense with the services of an existing staff whose level of competence is adjudged inadequate for coping with the task of the Commission.