Section 34: Repeal of the 1957 Statistics Act.

(1) The 1957 Statistics Act is hereby repealed and the administrative body known as the Federal Office of Statistics (in this section referred to as "the dissolved Office") is dissolved.
(2) Accordingly, as from the commencement of this Act
(a) all Zonal Offices, State Offices, Training School and other units which immediately before the commencement of this Act were owned, controlled or managed by the dissolved Office shall, by virtue of this Act, be transferred to, controlled or managed, as the case may be, by the Bureau;
(b) all the assets, funds resources and other movable and immovable property which immediately before the commencement of this Act were vested of the dissolved Office shall, by virtue of this Act, and without further assurance, be vested in the Bureau ;
(c) all right, interests, obligations and liabilities of the dissolved Office existing immediately before the commencement of this Act under any contract or instrument or at law or in equity shall, by virtue of this Act, be assigned to and vested in the Bureau;
(d) any contract or instrument, as is mentioned in paragraph (b) of this subsection, shall be of the same force and effect against or in favour of the Office and shall be enforceable as full and effectively as if, instead of the dissolved Office, the Bureau had been named therein or had been party thereof.
(3) A proceeding or cause of action pending on existing or which could have been taken by or against the dissolved office, immediately before the commencement of this Act in respect of any right, interest, obligation or liability of the dissolved Office, may be continued, enforced or taken by or against the Office as if the Bureau and not the dissolved Office had been a party thereof.
(4) Notwithstanding the provisions of this Act subject to such directions as may be issued by the Board, a person who immediately before the commencement of this Act held office in the dissolved Office shall be deemed to have been seconded to the Bureau with their full Civil Service benefits. Those officers who will not be taken on by the Bureau after the selection process will revert to the Civil Service for redeployment.