Section 6 Legal Education (Consolidation, etc.) Act

Section 6 of the Legal Education (Consolidation, etc.) Act is about Staff. It provides as follows:

(1) Without prejudice to section 2 (5) of this Act, the Council may appoint such officers and servants as are deemed necessary by the Council for the proper discharge of its functions under this Act, upon such terms and conditions of service as the Council may determine, provided that rates and scales of salary and other emoluments relating to any such appointment or employment shall be comparable with those prevailing in Nigerian universities.

(2) No person shall be appointed as Director-General of the Nigerian Law School unless-

(a) he is the holder or a former holder of the office of a professor in a faculty of law in a Nigerian university; or

(b) he is the holder of such qualification as are required for appointment as a professor in a faculty of law in a Nigerian university; or

(c) he is a legal practitioner who has on the date of application, or had at any time prior to that date, been in active legal practice for not less than ten years.

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