Chapter V – The Legislature

Part I – National Assembly

C) Qualifications for Membership of National Assembly and Right of Attendance

66) Disqualifications

68) Tenure of Seat of Members

Disqualifications

(66)(1) -- No person shall be qualified for election to the Senate or the House of Representatives if:

(d) within a period of less than 10 years before the date of an election to a legislative house, he has been convicted and sentenced for an offence involving dishonesty or he has been found guilty of a contravention of the Code of Conduct.

Tenure of Seat of Members

68)(1) -- A member of the Senate or of the House of Representatives shall vacate his seat in the House of which he is a member if:

(b) any other circumstances arise that, if he were not a member of the Senate or the House of Representatives, would cause him to be disqualified for election as a member.

Laws of the Federation of Nigeria of 1990

Marriage Act -- Chapter 218

(http://www.nigeria-law.org/Marriage%20Act.htm)

Offences and Penalties

40. Making false declarations etc. for marriage

44. Personation in marriage.

45. Fictitious marriage.

46. Contracting marriage under this Act when already married by native law.

47. Contracting marriage by native law when already married by this Act.

Foreign Marriages

49. Validity of foreign marriages.

Offences and Penalties

40. Whoever in any affidavit, declaration, certificate, licence, document, or statement by law to be made or issued for the purposes of a marriage, declares, enters, certifies or marriage, states any material matter which is false, shall, if he does so without having taken reasonable means to ascertain the truth or falsity of such matter, be liable to imprisonment for one year, or shall, if he does so knowing that such matter is false, be liable to imprisonment for five years.

44. Whoever personates any other person in marriage, or marries under a false name or description, with intent to deceive the other party to the marriage, shall be liable to imprisonment for five years.

45. Whoever goes through the ceremony of marriage, or any ceremony which he or she represents to be a ceremony of marriage, knowing that the marriage is void on any ground, and that the other person believes it to be valid, shall be liable to imprisonment for five years.

46. Whoever contracts a marriage under the provisions of this Act, or any modification or re-enactment thereof, being at the time married in accordance with customary law to any person other than the person with whom such marriage is contracted, shall be liable to imprisonment for five years.

Foreign Marriages -- Validity of foreign marriages

49. Subject to sections 50 to 53, a marriage between parties one of whom is a citizen of Nigeria, if it is contracted in a country outside Nigeria before a marriage officer in his office, shall be as valid in law as if it had been contracted in Nigeria before a registrar in the registrar's office.