COURT OF APPEAL (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2013
EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
This Act amends the Court of Appeal Act No. 15, 2005 by increasing the number of Justices of the Court of Appeal from seventy to ninety.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Amendment of Act No. 15 of 2005.
Amendment of section 1
Citation
[COMMENCEMENT 6TH DAY OF MARCH, 2013]
COURT OF APPEAL (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2013
An act to amend the Court of Appeal Act No.15, 2005 by increasing the number of Justices of the Court of Appeal from seventy to ninety.
ENACTED by the National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria:
Amendment of Act No. 15 of 2005
The Court of Appeal Act No. 15, 2005 (in this Act referred to as the “Principal Act”) is amended as set out in this Act.
Amendment of Section 1
Section 1 of the Principal Act is amended by substituting for the word “seventy” in line 2, the word “ninety”.
Citation
This act may be cited as the Court of Appeal (Amendment) Act, 2013.