CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA 1999, (FIFTH ALTERATION) (NO. 10) ACT, 2023

CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA 1999, (FIFTH ALTERATION) (NO. 10) ACT, 2023

LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA

AN ACT TO ALTER THE CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, 1999 TO EXCLUDE THE PERIOD OF INTERVENING EVENTS IN THE COMPUTATION OF TIME FOR DETERMINING PRE-ELECTION PETITIONS, ELECTION PETITIONS AND APPEALS; AND FOR RELATED MATTERS

[COMMENCEMENT]                                                        [3RD DAY OF MARCH, 2023]

ENACTED BY THE National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria—

1.       Alteration of the Constitution

The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (in this Act referred to as “the Principal Act”) is altered as set out in this Act.

2.       Alteration of section 285

Section 285 of the Principal Act is altered by inserting after subsection (13), a new subsection “(13A)” —

“(13A) For the purpose of this section, where there is a natural disaster, war or any State or national emergency or any other “force majeure” that prevents the filing of a pre-election matter, election petition, sitting of a court over a pre-election matter or the sitting of an election petition tribunal or appellate court, the period of the natural disaster, war, State or national emergency or any other “force majeure” shall not be reckoned with in the computation of time under subsections (5), (6), (7), (9), (10), (11) and (12) of this section”

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