Section 4: Powers of the Board.

(1) The powers, being exercised by the Customs, Immigration and Prisons Service Board to appoint, promote and exercise disciplinary control over staff of the service are hereby vested in the Board.
(2) The Board shall have power-
(a) to appoint persons to hold or act in all the offices in the service, including power to make appointments on promotion or transfer and to confirm appointments; and
(b) to dismiss and exercise other disciplinary control over persons appointed pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subsection.
(3) if the Board thinks it expedient that any vacancy in the staff of the service should be filled by a person holding office in the Civil Service of the Federation or of a State, it shall notify the appropriate Civil Service Commission to that effect and thereafter the Board may, by arrangement with the civil service commission concerned, cause such vacancy to be filled by way of secondment or transfer.
(4) where a person is seconded under subsection (3) of this section, he shall be notified of the terms and conditions of the secondment, and the secondment shall be without prejudice to any pension rights which but for the secondment would still accrue to him.
(5) A person seconded pursuant to subsection (3) of this section may elect, subject to the approval of the Board, to be transferred to the service.
(6) A member of staff of the service may elect to be transferred or seconded to any other civil service in the Federation and such right of transfer or secondment shall not operate to the disadvantage of the member of staff concerned.