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Nigerian Constitution. Chapter 5. Part 1. National Assembly. B-Procedure for Summoning and Dissolution of National Assembly
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 64. Dissolution and issue of proclamations by president
(1) The Senate and the House of Representatives shall each stand dissolved at the expiration of a period of four years commencing from the date of the first sitting of the House. (2) If the Federation is at war in which the territory of Nigeria is physically involved and the President considers that it is […]
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 63. Sittings
The Senate and the House of Representatives shall each sit for a period of not less than one hundred and eighty-one days in a year.
(1) The Senate or the House of Representatives may appoint a committee of its members for such special or general purpose as in its opinion would be better regulated and managed by means of such a committee, and may by resolution, regulation or otherwise, as it thinks fit, delegate any functions exercisable by it to […]
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 61. Vacancy or participation of strangers not to invalidate proceedings
The Senate or the House of Representatives may act notwithstanding any vacancy in its membership, and the presence or participation of any person not entitled to be present at or to participate in the proceedings of the House shall not invalidate those proceedings.
Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, the Senate or the House of Representatives shall have power to regulate its own procedure, including the procedure for summoning and recess of the House.
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 59. Mode Of Exercising Federal Legislative Power: Money Bills
(1) The provisions of this section shall apply to: (a) an appropriation bill or a supplementary appropriation bill, including any other bill for the payment, issue or withdrawal from the Consolidated Revenue Fund or any other public fund of the Federation of any money charged thereon or any alteration in the amount of such a […]
(1) The power of the National Assembly to make laws shall be exercised by bills passed by both the Senate and the House of Representatives and, except as otherwise provided by subsection (5) of this section, assented to by the President. (2) A bill may originate in either the Senate or the House of Representatives […]
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 57. Unqualified person sitting or voting
Any person who sits or votes in the Senate or the House of Representatives knowing or having reasonable grounds for knowing that he is not entitled to do so commits an offence and is liable on conviction to such punishment as shall be prescribed by an Act of the National Assembly.
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 56. Voting
(1) Except as otherwise provided by this Constitution any question proposed for decision in the Senate or the House of Representatives shall be determined by the required majority or the members present and voting; and the person presiding shall cast a vote whenever necessary y to avoid an equality of votes but shall not vote […]
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 55. Languages
The business of the National Assembly shall be conducted in English, and in Hausa, Ibo and Yoruba when adequate arrangements have been made therefor.
(1) The quorum of the Senate or of the House of Representatives shall be one-third of all the members on of the Legislative House concerned. (2) The quorum of a joint sitting of both the Senate or of the House of Representatives shall be one-third of all the members of both Houses. (3) If objection […]
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 53. Presiding at sitting of the National Assembly and at joint sittings
(1) At any sitting of the National Assembly – (a) in the case of the Senate, the President of the Senate shall preside, and in his absence the Deputy President shall preside; and (b) in the case of the House of Representatives, the Speaker of that House shall preside, and in his absence the Deputy […]
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 52. Declaration of assets and liabilities; oath of members
(1) Every member of the Senate or the House of Representatives shall, before taking his seat, declare his assets and liabilities as prescribed in this Constitution and subsequently take and subscribe the Oath of Allegiance and the oath of membership as prescribed in the Seventh Schedule to this Constitution before the President of the Senate […]