Section 45: Transitional provisions.

(1) Any person who immediately before the commencement of this Act was a staff of the Agency established under the repealed Act shall continue in office and be deemed to have been appointed under this Act for purposes of pension.
(2) Any person who immediately before the coming into effect of this Act is the holder of any office in the Agency existing before the commencement of this Act shall on the commencement of this Act continue in office and be deemed to have been appointed to his office unless the authority by which the person was appointed terminates the appointments.
(3) Properties held immediately before the commencement date of this Act on behalf of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency by any person shall, by virtue of this Act, be vested in the Agency established under this Act.
(4) The Agency established in section 1 of this Act shall be subject to all the obligations and liabilities to which the former Agency was subject immediately before the commencement of this Act and all other persons shall have the same rights, powers and remedies against the Agency established by this Act as they had against the Agency immediately before the commencement of this Act.
(5) Any proceeding or cause of action pending or existing immediately before the commencement of this Act by or against the Agency established under the repealed Act in respect of any right, interest, obligation or liability of the Agency may be continued or commenced, as the case may be, and any determination of a court of law, tribunal or other Commission or person may be enforced by or against the Agency established by this Act to the same extent that such proceeding, cause of action or determination might have been continued, commenced or enforced by or against the Agency existing before the commencement of this Act.
(6) As from the commencement of this Act, any disciplinary proceeding pending or existing against any employee of the Agency shall be continued and completed by the Agency established under this Act.