Section 13: Offers of employment with board to seconded officers.

(1) Within a period of one year and six months, but not before the expiration of a period of one year, next following the date on which an institute is established, the board of the institute shall offer to every officer seconded to the board from the service of the Government of the Federation on that date, employment by the board upon such terms and such conditions as may be agreed between the Federal Civil Service Commission and the board:
Provided that nothing in this section shall prevent the board from informing such officers of proposed terms and conditions of service before the expiration of the period of one year next following the date on which the institute is established.
(2) The Federal Civil Service Commission shall not agree to the terms and conditions comprised in any offer of employment made by a board to an officer under subsection (1) of this section unless he considers those terms and conditions to be not less favourable than those enjoyed by such officer at the date of such offer.
(3) The Federal Civil Service Commission shall not decline to agree to 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 Federal 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 a board in pursuance of this section shall be deemed to have refused such offer.
(5) If an officer refuses an offer of employment made to him by a board in pursuance of this section, the obligation imposed by subsection (1) of section 12 of this Act on the board to employ the officer shall thereupon determine.
(6) If no offer in pursuance of this section is made by the board of an institute to an officer seconded to its service then the obligation imposed by subsection (1) of section 12 of this Act on the board to employ the officer shall determine on the expiration of the period of two years and six months next following the date on which the institute was established.
(7) When an officer accepts an offer of employment made by the board of an institute in pursuance of this section, his service with the board shall be deemed to have commenced, and his service with the Government of the Federation to have ceased, upon the expiration of the period of one year and six months next following the date on which the institute was established.