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Nigerian Law Reform Commission Act

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Arrangement of Sections

Establishment of the Commission

1. Establishment of the Nigerian Law Reform Commission.

2. Appointment and tenure of office of members, etc.

3. Proceedings.

4. Committees.

Functions

5. Functions of the Commission.

6. Interim reports.

7. References by States.

Staff and financial provisions

8. Secretary and other staff of the Commission.

9. Service in the Commission to be pensionable, etc.

10. Establishment of fund by the Commission.

11. Accounts and audit.

Supplementary

12. Annual report.

13. Regulations.

14. Interpretation.

15. Short title.

An Act to set up a Law Reform Commission for Nigeria to undertake the progressive development and reform of substantive and procedural law applicable in Nigeria by way of codification, elimination of anomalous or obsolete laws and general simplification of the law in accordance with general directions issued by the Government, from time to time and for matters connected therewith. [1979 No.7.]

[3rd July, 1979] [Commencement.]

Establishment of the Commission

1. Establishment of the Nigerian Law Reform Commission

(1) There is hereby established a commission to be known as the Nigerian Law Reform Commission (in this Act referred to as "the Commission").
(2) The Commission shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and may hold, acquire and dispose of any property or interest in property, movable and immovable.

2. Appointment and tenure of office of members etc.

(1) The members of the Commission shall be appointed by the President and shall consist of four full-time Commissioners, one of whom shall be designated as the chairman.

[1985 No.6.]

(2) The persons appointed to be full-time Commissioners under subsection (1) of this section shall (except as already provided therein) be persons appearing to the National Assembly to be suitably qualified-

(a) by the holding of a high judicial office;

(b) by experience as a legal practitioner of not less than twelve years standing; or

(c) by being an eminent scholar in law.

(3) A person who holds high judicial office may be appointed as a Commissioner
without relinquishing that office, but shall not (unless otherwise provided by the terms of his appointment) be required to perform his duties as the holder of that office while he remains a member of the Commission and such appointment shall not affect his tenure of that judicial office or his rank, title, status, precedence and (except where this is less than as prescribed in subsection (6) of this section) salary or allowances or other rights and privileges as the holder of that judicial office and, accordingly, his service as a member of the Commission shall be taken to be service as the holder of that judicial office.

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