Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Fifth Alteration) Acts, 2023
Annotated alteration evidence — page 270
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- Nigeria
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- in force
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Official source(5) Any right of appeal to the Court of Appeal from the decisions
of the Code of Conduct Tribunal conferred by sub-paragraph (4)
hereof shall be exercised in accordance with the provisions of an
Act of the National Assembly and rules of court for the time being
in force regulating the powers, practice and procedure of the Court
of Appeal.
(6) Nothing in this paragraph shall prejudice the prosecution of
a public officer punished under this paragraph or preclude such
officer from being prosecuted or punished for an offence in a court
of law.
(7) The provisions of this Constitution relating to prerogative of
mercy shall not apply to any punishment imposed in accordance
with the provisions of this paragraph.
Interpretation
19. Interpretation
In this Code, unless the context otherwise requires –
“assets” includes any property, movable and immovable and
incomes owned by a person;
“business” means any profession, vocation, trade, or any adventure
or concern in the nature of trade and excludes farming;
“child” includes a step-child, a lawfully adopted child, a child born
out of wedlock and any child to whom any individual stands in place
of a parent;
“emolument” means any salary, wage, over-time or leave pay,
commission, fee, bonus, gratuity, benefit, advantage (whether
or not that advantage is capable of being turned into money
or money’s worth), allowance, pension or annuity paid, given or
granted in respect of any employment or office;
“foreign companies” or “foreign enterprises” means companies
or enterprises in which the controlling shares are owned by persons
other than the Government, its agencies or citizens of Nigeria or
whose policies are determined by persons or organisations outside
Nigeria;
264 The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Updated with the First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Alterations
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