CENTER FOR LAWS OF NIGERIA: FEDERAL LAWS
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LAW OFFICERS ACT
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
LAW OFFICERS ACT
An Act to provide that the State Legal Advisers be entitled to practise in the courts of Nigeria.
[1st October, 1936] [Commencement.]
This Act may be cited as the Law Officers Act.
The offices of Attorney-General, Solicitor-General, and State Counsel are hereby created.
[Order 47 of 1951. L.N. 1 of 1955.]
Every person appointed as Attorney-General or Solicitor-General of the Federation, the Director of Public Prosecutions of the Federation, Legal Draftsman of the Federation, or State Counsel, shall, so long as he continues to hold such office be deemed to be, and every person who shall have been appointed to any such office shall have been deemed to be, a barrister, advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria ex-officio and shall be entitled, and shall be deemed to have been entitled, to appear as counsel in all courts in Nigeria in which counsel may appear.
[L.N. 131 of 1954. L.N. 65 of 1958.]
The Solicitor-General of the Federation in the absence of the Attorney-General of the Federation may perform any of the duties and shall have the same powers as are imposed by law on the Attorney-General of the Federation.
LAW OFFICERS ACT
SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION
No Subsidiary Legislation