commencement of this Act shall continue in office and shall exercise the
powers conferred on him by the Constitution.
(3) Subject to the provision of the Constitution relating to persons in
public employment, any person who is a public officer and who
immediately before the commencement of this Act holds any public
office shall continue to be a public officer of the Government after the
commencement of this Act.
(4) The President may, at any time after the commencement of this Act,
require any person who continues in office by virtue of this section to
take an oath of allegiance and any oath for the due execution of his
office that is prescribed by or under any Act of Parliament.
(5) This section shall be without prejudice to(a)
the provisions of section ten; and
(b)
any powers conferred by or under the Constitution upon any
person or authority to make provision for the abolition of offices or the
removal of any person holding or acting in any office.
The National
10. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the National Assembly constituted
under the law in force before the commencement of this Act (hereinafter Assembly
referred to as "the existing National Assembly") shall be the National
Assembly during the period beginning on the commencement of this
Act and ending on the date set for the holding of elections to the office of
President and the National Assembly under the Constitution.
(2) The persons who immediately before the commencement of this Act
are the elected or nominated members of the existing National
Assembly shall continue to be the members of the National Assembly
during the period beginning on the commencement of this Act and
ending on the date set for the holding of elections to the office of
President and the National Assembly under the Constitution, and, in the
case of elected members, shall be deemed to have been elected to the
National Assembly to represent the same constituencies as the
constituencies for which they were respectively elected.
(3) The persons who immediately before the commencement of this Act