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Provided that a provisional payment may be made before the Auditor-General has given his certificate. (2) The National Assembly may prescribe the time at and manner in which any payment falling to be made under this Part of this Chapter shall be effected and provide for the making of adjustments and provisional payment. D - The public service of the Federation 169. Establishment of civil service of the Federation There shall be a civil service of the Federation. 170. Federal Civil Service Commission: power to delegate functions Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, the Federal Civil Service Commission may, with the approval of the President and subject to such conditions as it may deem fit, delegate any of the powers conferred upon it by this Constitution to any of its members or to any officer in the civil service of the Federation. 171. Presidential appointments (1) Power to appoint persons to hold or act in the offices to which this section applies and to remove persons so appointed from any such office shall vest in the President. (2) The offices to which this section applies are, namely – (a) Secretary to the Government of the Federation; (b) Head of the Civil Service of the Federation; (c) Ambassador, High Commissioner or other Principal Representative of Nigeria abroad; (d) Permanent Secretary in any Ministry or Head of any Extra- Ministerial Department of the Government of the Federation howsoever designated; and (e) any office on the personal staff of the President. 116 The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Updated with the First, Second , Third and Fourth Alterations