Section 7 Legal Education (Consolidation, etc.) Act

Section 7 of the Legal Education (Consolidation, etc.) Act is about Application of the Pensions Act, etc. It provides as follows:

(1) The Federal Civil Service Commission may by order published in the Federal Gazette declare the office of any officer or servant appointed by the Council under this Act a pensionable office for the purposes of the Pensions Act.

(2) Subject to subsections (3) and (4) of this section, the Pensions Act shall in its applications 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.

(3) For the purposes of the application of the Pensions Act in accordance with subsection (2) of this section

(a) paragraph (1) of section 7 of that Act (which confers power to waive the requirement to give notice of desire to retire) shall have effect as if for the references to the Minister there were substituted reference to the Council;

(b) the power under section 9 (1) of the Act to require an officer to retire at any time after attaining the age of forty-five shall be exercisable by the Council and not by any other authority

(4) Nothing in the foregoing provisions shall prevent the appointment of a person to any office on terms which preclude the grant of a pension or gratuity in respect of service in that office.

(5) Any order made under the Legal Education (Pensions) Act, 1965 in respect of offices constituted by the Council before the commencement of this Act shall continue to have effect in accordance with its terms as if made by the Commission in exercise of powers conferred by this section.

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