Section 4: Application of Pensions Act.

(1) The Federal Civil service Commission may by order published in the Federal Gazette declare the office of any person employed in the Commission to be a pensionable office for the purposes of the Pensions Act; and any order so made may be given retrospective effect but shall not be made to take effect on a date earlier than 16 October 1975.
(2) Subject to subsections (3) and (4) of this section, the Pensions Act shall, in its application by virtue of subsection (1) of this section to any office, have effect as if the office were in the public service of the Federation within the meaning of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999.
(3) For the purposes of the application of the provisions of the Pensions Act in accordance with subsection (2) of this section, any power exercisable thereunder by a Minister or other authority of the government of the Federation, other than the power to make regulations under section 23 thereof, is hereby vested in and shall be exercisable by the Commission and not by any other person or authority.
(4) Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this section shall prevent the appointment of a person to any office in the Commission on terms which preclude the grant of a pension or gratuity in respect of service in that office.
(5) It is hereby declared for the avoidance of doubt, that references in this section to persons employed in the Commission do not include references to Commissioners.