314. Any debt of
the Federation or of a State which immediately before the date
when this section comes into force was charged on the revenue
and assets of the Federation or on the revenue and assets of
a State shall, as from the date when this section comes into
force, continue to be so charged.
315.
(1) Subject
to the provisions of this Constitution, an existing law shall
have effect with such modifications as may be necessary to bring
it into conformity with the provisions of this Constitution
and shall be deemed to be -
(a) an
Act of the National Assembly to the extent that it is a law
with respect to any matter on which the National Assembly
is empowered by this Constitution to make laws; and
(b) a Law made by a House of Assembly to the extent that
it is a law with respect to any matter on which a House
of Assembly is empowered by this Constitution to make laws.
(2) The appropriate
authority may at any time by order make such modifications
in the text of any existing law as the appropriate authority
considers necessary or expedient to bring that law into conformity
with the provisions of this Constitution.
(3) Nothing in
this Constitution shall be construed as affecting the power
of a court of law or any tribunal established by law to declare
invalid any provision of an existing law on the ground of
inconsistency with the provision of any other law, that is
to say-
(a) any
other existing law;
(b) a Law of a House of Assembly;
(c) an Act of the National Assembly; or
(d) any provision of this Constitution.
(4) In
this section, the following expressions have the meanings
assigned to them, respectively -
(a) "appropriate
authority" means -
(i)
the President, in relation to the provisions of any law
of the Federation,
(ii) the Governor of a State, in relation to the provisions
of any existing law deemed to be a Law made by the House
of Assembly of that State, or
(iii) any person appointed by any law to revise or rewrite
the laws of the Federation or of a State;
(b) "existing
law" means any law and includes any rule of law or any enactment
or instrument whatsoever which is in force immediately before
the date when this section comes into force or which having
been passed or made before that date comes into force after
that date; and
(c) "modification"
includes addition, alteration, omission or repeal.
(5) Nothing in
this Constitution shall invalidate the following enactments,
that is to say -
(a) the
National Youth Service Corps Decree 1993;
(b) the Public Complaints Commission Act;
(c) the National Security Agencies Act;
(d) the Land Use Act,
and the provisions of those enactments shall continue to
apply and have full effect in accordance with their tenor
and to the like extent as any other provisions forming part
of this Constitution and shall not be altered or repealed
except in accordance with the provisions of section 9 (2)
of this Constitution.
(6) Without prejudice
to subsection (5) of this section, the enactments mentioned
in the said subsection shall hereafter continue to have effect
as Federal enactments and as if they related to matters included
in the Exclusive Legislative List set out in Part I of the
Second Schedule to this Constitution.
