Section 15: Discipline.

(1) Every servant of the board of an institute who is in receipt of an annual salary exceeding six hundred naira or, if his appointment contains provision for increases in salary, who may receive a maximum annual salary thereunder exceeding six hundred naira, shall be subject to the authority of the board:
Provided that no such person shall be dismissed without the approval of the Minister who may, before expressing approval or otherwise, institute such enquiries as shall to him seem fit.
(2) Every servant of the board of an institute who is in receipt of an annual salary not exceeding six hundred naira or, if his appointment contains provisions for increases in salary, whose terms of appointment provide for a maximum annual salary not exceeding six hundred naira or who is paid a salary other than an annual salary, shall be subject to the authority of the director and for the purpose of discipline, including dismissal, to such directions as the director may either generally or specifically issue:
Provided that no such servant holding an office declared to be a pensionable office under section 14 of this Act shall be dismissed without the approval of the board.