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Supplement to Official Gazette

CERTAIN JUDICIAL OFFICE (EXTENSION OF PERIOD OF OFFICE) (No.2) DECREE 1979 Decree No. 37 [17th November 1978) THE FEDERAL MILITARY GOVERNMENT hereby decrees as follows: 1. Notwithstanding section 52 of the Constitution of the former Northern Nigeria (as modified by the Constitution (Basic Provisions) Decree 1975) and of section 6 of the High Court Law of former Northern Nigeria as in force in Gongola State of Nigeria (which provides that any person holding the office of a judge of the High Court of Gongola State shall vacate that office when he attains the age of 62 years), Mr Justice Joseph C…