CHAPTER V
The Legislature
Part I
National Assembly
A Composition and Staff of National Assembly
47. There shall be a National Assembly for the
Federation which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives.
48. The Senate shall consist of three Senators
from each State and one from the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
49. Subject to the provisions of this Constitution,
the House of Representatives shall consist of three hund#FF0000
and sixty members representing constituencies of nearly equal
population as far as possible, provided that no constituency shall
fall within more than one State.
50. (1) There shall be:-
(a) a President and a Deputy President of the
Senate, who shall be elected by the members of that House from
among themselves; and
(b) a Speaker and a Deputy Speaker of the House
of Representatives, who shall be elected by the members of that
House from among themselves.
(2) The President or Deputy President of the Senate
or the Speaker or Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives
shall vacate his office -
(a) if he ceases to be a member of the Senate
or of the House of Representatives, as the case may be, otherwise
than by reason of a dissolution of the Senate or the House of
Representatives; or
(b) when the House of which he was a member first
sits after any dissolution of that House; or
(c) if he is removed from office by a resolution
of the Senate or of the House of Representatives, as the case
may be, by the votes of not less than two-thirds majority of the
members of that House.
51. There shall be a Clerk to the National Assembly
and such other staff as may be prescribed by an Act of the National
Assembly, and the method of appointment of the Clerk and other
staff of the National Assembly shall be as prescribed by that
tab
Procedure for Summoning and Dissolution of National
Assembly
52. (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 or, as the case
may be, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, but a member
may before taking the oaths take part in the election of a President
and a Deputy President of the Senate, as the case may be, or a
Speaker and a Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives.
(2) The President and Deputy President of the
Senate and the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the House of
Representative s shall declare their assets and liabilities as
prescribed in this Coinstitution and subsequently take and subscribe
the Oath of Allegiance and the oath of membership prescribed as
aforesaid before the Clerk of the National Assembly.
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