Section 9: Service in the Council to be pensionable Cap 346 LFN 1990

(1) Service in the Council shall be approved service for purposes of the Pensions Act.
(2) Employees of the Council shall be entitled to pensions, gratuities and other retirement benefits as the Council may determine from time to time.
(3) Nothing in subsections (1) and (2) of this section or in this Act shall prevent the appointment of a person to any office on terms that preclude the grant of pension and gratuity in respect of that office.
(4) For the purpose of the application of the provision of the Pensions Act, any power exercisable by the Minister or other authority of the Government of the Federation, other than the power to make regulations under section 23; is vested in and shall be exercisable by the Board and not by any other person or authority.