6.(1)
Where any matter that fails to be prescribed or provided for
under this Constitution by an Act of the National Assembly
or by any other authority or person, is prescribed or
provided for by or under any existing law (including any
Decree) or is otherwise lawfully prescribed or provided for
immediately before the coming into force of this
Constitution, that prescription or provision shall, as from
the coming into force of this Constitution, have effect with
such modifications, adaptations, qualifications and
exceptions as may be necessary to bring it into conformity
with this Constitution as if it were made under this
Constitution by an Act of the National Assembly or, as the
case may be, by the other authority or person.
(2)
Where, immediately before the coming into force of this
Constitution, any existing law had not been brought into
force or was to come into force on a date subsequent to the
coming into force of this Constitution, the law may be
brought into force accordance with its terms, or it shall
come into force on such subsequent date, as the case may
be, in so far as it is not inconsistent with this Constitution.
(3)
Subject to subparagraph (4) and to it being consistent with
this Constitution in any existing law (a) a reference to the exercise of a legislative function (other
than a power to make subsidiary legislation) by the
Government or the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling
Council shall, after the coming into force of this
Constitution, be read as a reference to the exercise of that
function by an Act of the National Assembly.
(b) A reference to a power to make subsidiary legislation by
the Government of the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling
Council shall, after the coming into force of this
Constitution, be read as a reference to the President or to
such Secretary of State or other authority as the President
may by Order, Published in the Gazette, direct; and
(c) A reference to the exercise of an executive function by the
Government, or any function) from other than a legislative
function) or power by the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling
Council or the Chairman thereof, shall, after the coming
into force of this Constitution, be read as a reference to the
exercise of that function or power by the President