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Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Act

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

SECTION

  1. Establishment of the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.
  2. Membership of the Council, etc.
  3. Functions of the Council.
  4. Functions of the Institute.
  5. Director-General of the Institute.
  6. Principal officers of the Institute.
  7. Appointment of other staff.
  8. Conditions of service and remuneration of the Director-General and other staff of the Institute.
  9. Pensions.
  10. Special provisions relating to pension of professors employed at the Institute.
  11.  Power to accept gifts.
  12. Residences, offices and premises.
  13. Financial provisions.
  14. Borrowing power.
  15. Annual estimates, accounts and audit.
  16. Procedure in respect of suits against the Institute.
  17. Service of documents.
  18. Restriction on execution against the property of the Institute.
  19. Indemnity of members of the Council and employees of the Institute.
  20. Annual report.
  21. Staff regulations.
  22. Transitional provisions.
  23. Interpretation.
  24. Short title.

SCHEDULE

Supplementary provisions relating to the Council, etc. 

NIGERIAN INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED LEGAL STUDIES ACT

An Act to establish the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies to be responsible, amongst other things, for the conduct of research into any branch of law with a view to applying the result in the interest of Nigeria, providing information, supervision, guidance and advice to post-graduate students and other researchers in the field of law and law related subjects.

[1984 No. 18.]

[27th June, 1984]

[Commencement. ]

  1. Establishment of the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
(l) There is hereby established an institute to be known as the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (in this Act referred to as “the Institute”) which shall have the functions assigned to it by this Act.
(2) The Institute shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and may sue and be sued in its corporate name.
  1. Membership of the Council, etc.
(1) There shall be established for the management of the affairs of the Institute a body to be known as the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Council (in this Act referred to as “the Council”).
(2) The Council shall consist of the following members, that is-
(a) a chairman to be appointed by the President;

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