Section 15A, The West Mrican Cocoa Research Institute (Sierra Leone Status) Ordinance

(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council by Order to declarethat the office of Director and any office under the Institute or Committee sh'111 be a pensionable office for the purposes of the Pensions Ordinance, 1950. (2) The provisions of the Pensions Ordinance, 1950, shall, subject to the provisions of sub-section (3) of this section, apply or continue to apply to persons confirmed in offices declared to be pensionable under sub-section (1) of this section in the same manner and to the same extent as the said provisions would apply to such persons if they were serving in a civil capacity in a pensionable office in the Gold Coast under the Government of the Gold Coast. (3) For the purposes of this section the Pensions Ordinance, 1950, shall have effect as if, in sub-section (1) of section 7 and sub-section (2) of section 9 of that Ordinance, the word " Committee " were substituted for the words " Chief Secretary " and the word " Governor " respectively wherever such words appear therein except in relation to the Director in which case, for the purposes of this section, the Pensions Ordinance, 1950, shall have effect as if the words " Secretary of State, acting after consultation with the Governor and the officers administering the Governments of Nigeria and Sierra Leone " and " Committee " were substituted for the words " Governor " and " Chief Secretary " respectively wherever such words appear in those sub-sections. (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, 1950, to such a person in respect of his service in that office.