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APPENDIX VII
THE NIGERIA INDEPENDENCE ACT, 1960
An Act to make provision for, and in connexion with, the
attainment by Nigeria of fully responsible status within the
Commonwealth
1. BE it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with
the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and
Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the autho-
rity of the same, as follows:
1. (1) On the first day of October, nineteen hundred and sixty
(in this Act referred to as 'the appointed day'), the Colony and the
Protectorate as respectively defined by the Nigeria (Constitution)
Orders in Council, 1954 to 1960, shall together constitute part of
Her Majesty's dominions under the name of Nigeria.
2. (2) No Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed on
or after the appointed day shall extend, or be deemed to extend, to
Nigeria or any part thereof as part of the law thereof, and as from
that day--
3. (a) Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom shall
have no responsibility for the government of Nigeria or any
part thereof; and
4. (b) the provisions of the First Schedule to this Act shall have
effect with respect to legislative powers in Nigeria.
2. (3) Without prejudice to subsection (2) of this section, nothing
in subsection (1) thereof shall effect the operation in Nigeria or any
part thereof on and after the appointed day of any enactment, or
any other instrument having the effect of law, passed or made with
respect thereto before that day.
3. (1) As from the appointed day, the British Nationality Acts,
1948 and 1958, shall have effect as if--
A. (a) in subsection (3) of section one of the said Act of 1948 (which
provides for persons to be British subjects or Commonwealth
citizens by virtue of citizenship of certain countries) the word
'and' in the last place where it occurs were omitted, and at
the end there were added the words 'and
Nigeria';
B. (b) in the First Schedule to the British Protectorates, Protected
States and Protected Persons Order in Council, 1949, the
words ' Nigeria Protectorate' were omitted:

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Constitutional Structure of the Commonwealth. Contributors: K. C. Wheare - author. Publisher: Clarendon Press. Place of Publication: Oxford. Publication Year: 1960. Page Number: 191.
    
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