PART XI
SERVICE COMMISSIONS
(As amended by Act No. 18 of 1996)
123. (1) There shall be established for the Republic a Judicial Service Commissions
Commission which shall have functions conferred on it by this
Constitution and such other functions and powers, as may be prescribed
by or under an Act of Parliament.
(2) Parliament may establish for the Republic other Commissions
which, together with the Judicial Service Commission, are hereafter
collectively referred to as Service Commissions, which shall have such
functions and powers in relation to the public service, or in relation to
persons in public employment other than constitutional office holders or
public officers, as may be prescribed by or under an Act of Parliament.
(3) Commissions other than Service Commissions may be established
for the Republic by or under an Act of Parliament and shall have such
functions and powers as may be prescribed by or under such Act.
(4) Nothing in the foregoing precludes provision being made by or
under an Act of Parliament to confer on a Service Commission functions
and powers in relation to matters other than public employment.
124. (1) The law to be applied with respect to any pension benefits that Pension laws and
protection
were granted to any person before the commencement of this
Constitution shall be the law that was in force at the date on which those
benefits were granted or any law in force at a later date that is not less
favourable to that person.
(2) The law to be applied with respect to any pension benefits not being
benefits to which clause (1) applies, shall(a)
in so far as those benefits are wholly in respect of a period of
service as a public officer, as any officer in the department of the
Clerk or the National Assembly, or as a member of the armed
forces, that commenced before the commencement of this
Constitution, be the law that was in force immediately before