the President.
(2)
The National Assembly shall not pass a Bill(a)
(b)
(c)
to establish a one party state;
to establish any religion as a state religion; or
to alter the decision or judgement of a court in any
proceedings to the prejudice of any party to those
proceedings, or deprive any person retroactively of
vested or acquired rights, but subject thereto, the
National Assembly may pass Bills designed to have
retroactive effect.
(3)
Where a Bill passed by the National Assembly is presented
to the President for his or her assent, the President shall,
within thirty days, assent to the Bill or return it to the
National Assembly with the request that the National
assembly reconsiders the Bill; and if he or she requests the
National Assembly to reconsider the Bill, the President
shall state the reasons for the request and any
recommendations for amendment of the Bill.
(4)
Where the National assembly has reconsidered a Bill as so
requested in accordance with sub-section (3) and has
resolved by a vote supported by not less than two thirds of
all the members of the National Assembly that the Bill,
with or without the amendments recommended by the
President, be presented again to the President for his or her
assent, the President shall assent to the Bill within seven
days of it being so presented.
(5)
A Bill which has been duly passed by the National
Assembly and assented to by the President shall become
law as an Act of the National Assembly and the words of
enactment shall be: “Enacted by the President and the
National Assembly”.
(6)
The President shall cause Acts of the National Assembly to
be published in the Gazette within thirty days of assent.
(7)
No Act of the National Assembly shall come into operation
until it has been published in the Gazette, but the Act or
some other Act of the National Assembly may provide for
the postponement of its coming into force.
(8)
Nothing in this section shall prevent an Act of the National
Assembly from conferring on any person or authority the
power to make subsidiary legislation.