Section 6: Application of Pensions Act.

(1) The Federal Civil Service Commission may, by order published in the Federal Gazette, declare the office of the Executive Secretary or of any other employee of the Council to be a pensionable office for the purposes of the Pensions Act. (Cap. P4.)
(2) Subject to subsections (3) and (4) of this section, the Pensions Act shall, in its application by virtue of subsection (1) of this section 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 1999. (Cap. C23.)
(3) For the purposes of the application of the provisions of the Pensions Act and in accordance with this section-
(a) section 21 of that Act shall have effect as if for the references to that Minister, there were substituted references to the Council; and
(b) the power under subsection 4(2) of that Act shall be exercisable by the Council and not by any other authority.
(4) Nothing in the foregoing provisions shall prevent the appointment of a person to any office on terms which preclude the granting of a pension or gratuity in respect of service in that office.