PORTS ACT

Section 29: Officers of employment with Authority to seconded officers.

1956Section 29 of 138Federal Republic of Nigeria

(1) Within a period of one year and three months, but not before the expiration of a period of one year next following the vesting day, the Authority shall offer, to ever officer seconded to the Authority from the service of the Government on the vesting day, employment by the Authority upon such terms and such conditions as may be
agreed between the Civil Service Commission and the Authority:
Provided that nothing in this Act shall prevent the Authority from informing such officers of proposed terms and conditions of service before the expiration of the period of one year next following the vesting day.
(2) The Authority shall not offer employment to any officer so seconded to the service of the Authority, except upon terms and conditions certified under the hand of the Chairman of the Civil Service Commission to be, in the opinion of the Civil Service Commission, not less favourable than those enjoyed by such officer at the date of such offer.
(3) The Civil Service Commission shall not decline so to certify the terms and conditions comprised in any offer merely because they are not in all respects identical with or superior to the terms enjoyed by the officer concerned at the date of such offer, if such terms and conditions, taken as a whole, in the opinion of the Civil Service Commission offer substantially equivalent or greater benefits.
(4) Any officer who fails within one year to accept in writing an offer made to him by the Authority in accordance with this section shall be deemed to have refused such offer.
(5) If an officer refuses an offer of employment made to him by the Authority in pursuance of this section, the obligation imposed by subsection (1) of section 28 of this Act on the Authority to employ the officer shall thereupon determine.
(6) If no offer in pursuance of this section is made by the Authority to an officer seconded to its service, then the obligation imposed by subsection (1) of section 28 of this Act, on the Authority to employ the officer, shall determine on the expiration of the period of two years and three months next following the vesting day.
(7) When an officer accepts an offer of employment made in pursuance of this section, his service with the Authority shall be deemed to have commenced, and his service with the Government to have ceased, upon the expiration of the period of one year and three months next following the vesting day.

Cite this section

Section 29, PORTS ACT (1956).

https://repo.podus.ai/laws/ports-act/section/29/