Section 18: Service in the Centre.

1 Service in the Centre shall be Public Service within the meaning of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999.

2 Service in the Centre shall be an approved service under the Pension Reform Act, and an employee of the Centre shall, in respect of the service, be entitled to pension and other retirement benefits as prescribed in the Pension Reform Act.
[Cap. C23, LFN, 2004]
[Act No. 4, 2014 ]

3 Nothing in this Act shall prevent the appointment of a person to an office on terms which preclude the grant of pension and other retirement benefits in respect of that office.

4 For the purpose of the application of the provisions of the Pension Reform Act, any power exercisable by a Minister or other authority of the Government of the Federation, not being the power to make regulations, is vested in and shall be exercisable by the Board.
[Act No. 4, 2014]