Section 10: Application of Pensions Act

(1)
It is hereby declared that service in the Postal Service shall be pensionable under the Pensions Act and accordingly employees of the Postal Service shall, in respect of their services in the Postal Service, be entitled to pensions, gratuities and other retirement benefits as are prescribed thereunder.
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(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, nothing in this Act shall prevent the appointment of a person to an office on terms which preclude the grant of a pension and gratuity in respect of that office.
(3)
For the purpose of the application of the provisions of the Pensions Act, any power exercisable thereunder by a Minister or other authority of the Government of the Federation (not being to make regulations under section 23 thereof), is hereby vested in and shall be exercisable by the Board and not by any other person or authority.
[Cap. P4.]
(4)
Subject to subsection (2) of this section, the Pensions Act shall in its application by virtue of subsection (3) of this section to any office, have effect as if the office were in the civil service of the Federation within the meaning of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999.
[Cap. P4. Cap. C23.]