Nigerian Law Reform Commission Act, 2022

(1) There is established 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.

(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, subject to confirmation of such appointment by the Senate.

(2) The Chairman shall be the Chief Executive and Accounting Officer of the Commission.

(3) The persons appointed to be full-time Commissioners under subsection (1) shall, except as already provided therein, be persons appearing to the Senate to be suitably qualified by-

(a) holding of a high judicial office;

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

(c) being an eminent scholar in law.

(4) 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 the tenure of that judicial office or the rank, title, status, precedence and, except where this is less than as prescribed in subsection (6), salary or allowances or other rights and privileges as the holder of that judicial office and, accordingly, the service as a member of the Commission shall be taken to be service as the holder of that judicial office.

(5) Subject to subsection (6), a person appointed as a Commissioner shall hold office for five years and shall be eligible for reappointment for one further period of five years.