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SUPREME COURT (AMENDMENT) DECREE 1979 Decree No. 41 [30th July 1979] THE FEDERAL MILITARY GOVERNMENT hereby decrees as follows: 1. Section 3 (1) of the Supreme Court Act 1960 (as substituted by the Adaptation of Laws (Federal Provisions) Order 1960 and subsequently amended by the Justices of the Supreme Court Act 1964 and the Supreme Court (Amendment) Decree 1977) which provides that the number of Justices of the Supreme Court apart from the Chief Justice of Nigeria shall be ten is hereby further amended by the substitution for the word "ten" of the word "twelve". 2.-(1) This Decree may be cit…