Section 16: Conditions of Service.

(1) The Commission shall develop and implement appropriate staff conditions of service for its staff with particular regard to the issues of remuneration, pensions scheme and other fringe service benefits, sufficient for the Commission to attract and retain quality and high calibre manpower.
(2) The Board shall consider and, in consultation with the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission determine and review from time to time, the remunerations and allowances, payable to the Commission's staff.
(3) The conflict of interest provisions contained in the Second Schedule to this Act shall apply to all employees of the Commission.
(4) Notwithstanding the provisions of the Pensions Act, service in the Commission shall be approved service for the purposes of that Act and accordingly, officers and other persons employed in the Commission shall in respect of their services in the Commission, be entitled to pensions, gratuities and other retirement benefits as are enjoyed by persons holding equivalent grades in the Civil Service of the Federation, so however that 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.
(5) For the purposes of the application of the Pensions Act, any power exercisable thereunder by a Minister or other Authority of the Federal Government, other than 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.