Section 98 Copyright Act

Section 98 Copyright Act 2022 is about Application of the Pensions Reform Act. It is under Part XII (Miscellaneous Provisions) of the Act.

(1) Service in the employment of the Commission shall be approved service under the Pensions Reform Act and accordingly, employees of the Commission shall, in respect of their services be entitled to pension and other retirement benefits as are prescribed in that Act.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1), nothing in this Act shall prevent the appointment of a person to any office on terms, which preclude the grant of pension and gratuity in respect of that office.

(3) For the purpose of the application of the Pensions Reform Act, any power exercisable under it by the President or authority other than the Federal Government (not being the power to make regulations), shall be vested in and exercisable by the Commission.

(4) Subject to subsection (2), the Pensions Reform Act, shall in its application of subsection (3), 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, 1999.