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Legal Education (Consolidation, Etc.) Act

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Arrangement of Sections

1. Establishment and functions of the Council of Legal Education.

2. Composition etc. of the Council.

3. Additional function of the Council.

4. Power of Minister to give directions to the Council.

5. Qualifying Certificates.

6. Staff.

7. Application of the Pensions Act, etc.

8. Expenses.

9. Disposal of fees collected by the Council.

10. Short title and repeal, etc.

CITATION

An Act to re-enact the Legal Education Act 1962 as amended up to date and to introduce new provisions relative to the composition of the Council of Legal Education and the appointment of the Director-General of the Nigerian Law School.

8th March 1976

1. (1) There shall be a body to be known as the Council Establishment and of Legal Education (hereafter in this Act referred to as functions of "the Council") which shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal.

(2) The Council shall have responsibility for the legal education of persons seeking to become members of the legal profession.

2. (1) The Council shall consist of-

(a) a chairman, to be appointed by the National Council of Ministers on the recommendation of the Attorney-General of the Federation;
(b) Attorneys-General of the States or, where there are no Attorneys-General, the Solicitors-General of the States;
(c) a representative of the Federal Ministry of Justice to be appointed by the Attorney-General of the Federation;
(d) the head of the faculty of law of any recognised university in Nigeria whose course of legal studies is approved by the Council as sufficient qualification for admission to the Nigerian Law School;
(e) the president of the Nigerian Bar Association;
(f) fifteen persons entitled to practise as legal practitioners in Nigeria of not less than ten years standing and selected or elected by the Nigerian Bar Association;
(g) the Director-General of the Nigerian Law School; and
(h) two persons who must be authors of published learned works in the field of law, to be appointed by the Attorney-General of the Federation.
(2) A person appointed as Chairman of the Council shall, unless he previously resigns or is removed from office, hold office for four years and shall on ceasing to hold office be eligible for reappointment.

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