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This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not necessarily in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that any subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.
An Act to make provision as to the operation of the law in relation to Nigeria as a Republic within the Commonwealth.
[18th December 1963]
(1)Subject to this Act, all law which, whether being a rule of law or a provision of an Act of Parliament or of any other enactment or instrument whatsoever, was in force on 1st October 1963, or, having been passed or made before that day, comes or has come into force thereafter, shall, unless and until provision to the contrary is made by Parliament or some other authority having power in that behalf, have the same operation in relation to Nigeria, and persons and things belonging to or connected with Nigeria, as it would have apart from this subsection if Nigeria had not become a Republic.
(2)This section applies to law of or of any part of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man and, in relation only to any enactment of the Parliament of the United Kingdom or any Order in Council made by virtue of any such enactment whereby any such enactment applies in relation to Nigeria, to law of any other country or territory to which that enactment or Order extends.
(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1
(4)This section shall be deemed to have had effect from 1st October 1963.
F1S. 1(3) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1977 (c. 18), Sch. 1 Pt. XV
(1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1
(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2 any Order in Council or other instrument made under any other enactment which varies or revokes a previous Order in Council or instrument in consequence of Nigeria having become a Republic, may be made so as to have effect from 1st October 1963.
(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1
F1Ss. 2(1)(3) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969 (c. 52), Sch. Pt. VI
F2Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1969 (c. 52), Sch. Pt. VI
This Act may be cited as the Nigeria Republic Act 1963.
Nigeria Republic Act 1963