Section 3: Service conditions of transferred officers, etc

(1) Where an officer in the public service of a former Region is, on or after the appointed day, transferred to the public service of the Federation or to the public service of any State, the terms and conditions of service to be applied to that officer in respect of his service in the public service of the Federation or, as the case may be, of the State to which he is transferred, shall not be less favourable to him than the terms and conditions of service that applied to him immediately before the date of his transfer:
Provided that new terms and conditions of service subsequently brought into force with respect to the public service to which an officer is so transferred, being terms and conditions that are applicable in his case, shall apply to him.
(2) If, on or after the appointed day, an officer retires from the public service of a former Region by reason of the fact that he has not, on or after that date, accepted appointment in any other office in any public service in the Federation or, as the case may be, in any office in any approved service, within the meaning of the Pensions Act, that officer shall not, by reason only of so retiring, be entitled to any pension or gratuity or other like benefit (other than such as may be granted under any pensions enactment or under his contract of service, as the case may be).