Section 18, Cap 155

The Council shall not, without the approval in writingof the Governor, alienate, mortgage, charge or demise any immoveable property which has been vested in the Council under any of the provisions of this Ordinance or in respect of which a right of occupancy has been granted to the Council. Wld·do ws'h , 19. (I) The Council at any time, with the approval of the an rp ans G . f h C "1 b .pensions. overnor, may reqmre any servant o t e ounc1, emg a person who if he were in the service of the Government of Nigeria would be deemed to be a " European Officer " within Cap. 23 1 the meaning of the Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Ordinance, to contribute to the scheme established by such Ordinance. Pensionable offices. No. 29 of 1951. {2) Where the Council requires any person to contribute in accordance with sub-section {I) of this section, the provisions of the Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Ordinance shall apply to such person in the same manner and to the same extent as if such person were in the service of the Government of Nigeria, and every such person so contributing shall be deemed a " European Officer " within the meaning of such Ordinance. 20. {I) It shall be lawful for the Governor by order to declare that any office under the Council shall be a pensionable office for the purposes of the Pensions Ordinance, I95l. (2) The provisions of the Pensions Ordinance, I95I shall, subject to the provisions of sub-section (3) and sub-section (4) of this section, apply or continue to apply to employees of the Council confirmed in offices declared to be pensionable under sub-section (I) of this section in the same manner and to the same extent as the said provisions would apply to such employees if they were serving in a civil capacity in a pensionable office in Nigeria under the Government of Nigeria. -(3) For the purpose of this section the Pensions Ordinance, 1951, shall have effect as if in paragraph (I) of section 7 and sub-section (I) of section 9 of that Ordinance the word" Council" were substituted for the word " Governor " wherever such word appears therein. (4) Nothing in the provisions of sub-section (2) of this section shall prevent the appointment of a person to a pensionable office on terms which preclude the grant of a pension under the Pensions Ordinance, I95I, to such person in respect of his service in that office. (5) For the purposes of this section the Secretary to the Council shall be deemed to be an employee of the Council and his office to be an office under the Council, and the foregoing provisions of this section shall apply in relation to the said Secretary accordingly, save that the provisions of sub-section (6) shall have effect in lieu of the provisions of sub-section (3), and the reference in sub-section (2) to sub-section (3) shall be deemed to be a reference to sub-section (6). (6) In relation to the Secretary to the Council the Pensions Ordinance, I95I, shall, for the purposes of this section, have effect as if- (a) in paragraph (1) of section 7 of that Ordinance the words "Secretary of State" were substituted for the word "Governor," in both places where the word occurs therein; and (b) in sub-section (I) of section 9 of that Ordinance the words " Secretary of State after consultation with the Governments of the West Mrican Territories " were substituted for the words "Governor," in both places where that word occurs therein, and the proviso to the sub-section were omitted.