(c) no process of any court requiring or compelling the appearance of a person to whom this section applies,
shall be applied for or issued:
Provided that in ascertaining whether any period of limitation has expired for the purposes of any proceedings
against a person to whom this section applies, no account shall be taken of his period of office.
(2) The provisions of subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to civil proceedings against a person to whom
this section applies in his official capacity or to civil or criminal proceedings in which such a person is only a
nominal party.
(3) This section applies to a person holding the office of President or Vice-President, Governor or Deputy
Governor; and the reference in this section to "period of office" is a reference to the period during which the
person holding such office is required to perform the functions of the office.
Part III
Transitional Provisions and Savings
309. Notwithstanding the provisions of Chapter III of this Constitution but subject to section 28 thereof, any
person who became a citizen of Nigeria by birth, registration or naturalisation under the provisions of any other
Constitution shall continue to be a citizen of Nigeria under this Constitution.
310. (1) Until the National Assembly or a House of Assembly has exercised its powers to initiate legislation in
accordance with the provisions of section 51 or 93 of this Constitution, the Clerk or other staff of a legislative
house shall be appointed, as respects each House of the National Assembly by the Federal Civil Service
Commission, and as respects a House of Assembly by the State Civil Service Commission.
(2) In exercising its powers under the provisions of this section, the Federal Civil Service Commission shall
consult, as appropriate, the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of the Representatives, and a
State Civil Service Commission shall consult the Speaker of the House of Assembly of the State.
311. (1) The provisions of this section shall have effect until the National Assembly or a House of Assembly
exercises the powers conferred upon it by section 60 or 101 of this Constitution as appropriate.
(2) The Standing Orders of the Senate established under the former Constitution shall apply in relation to the
proceedings in the Senate established under this Constitution.
(3) The Standing Orders of the House of Representatives established under the former Constitution shall apply in
relation to the proceedings in the House of Representatives established under this Constitution.
(4) The Standing Orders of a House of Assembly established under the former Constitution shall apply in
relation to a House of Assembly of a State established under this Constitution.
(5) The Standing Orders of the former legislative houses referred to in subsections (2), (3) and (4) of this section,
shall apply in relation to a legislative house with such modifications as may be necessary to bring them into
conformity with the provisions of this Constitution.
(6) In this section, the "former Constitution" refers to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1979.
312. (1) The electoral commission established for the Federation under any law in force immediately before the
date when this section comes into force shall be responsible for performing the functions conferred on the
Independent National Electoral Commission established by the provisions of this Constitution.
(2) Any person who before the coming into force of this Constitution was elected to any elective office
mentioned in this Constitution in accordance with the provisions of any law in force immediately before the
coming into force of this Constitution shall be deemed to have been duly elected to that office under this
Constitution.
313. Pending any Act of the National Assembly for the provision of a system of revenue allocation between the
Federation and the States, among the States, between the States and local government councils and among the
local government councils in the States, the system of revenue allocation in existence for the financial year
beginning from 1st January 1998 and ending on 31st December 1998 shall, subject to the provisions of this
Constitution and as from the date when this section comes into force, continue to apply: