Section 2: Authentication of Bills for assent

(1) The Clerk of the National Assembly shall forthwith after enactment, prepare a copy of each Bill as passed by both Houses of the National Assembly embodying all amendments agreed to, and shall endorse on the Bill and sign a certificate that the copy has been prepared as prescribed by this section and is a true copy of that Bill.
(2) The Clerk of the National Assembly shall, as from time to time directed by the President of the Senate, prepare a Schedule of Bills passed at any time during a session and intended to be presented for assent, and shall certify on the Schedule that it is a true and correct record.
(3)
The Schedule shall set forth the long title of a Bill and a summary of its contents and the respective dates on which each Bill passed each House of the National Assembly; and subject to the provisions of this section, when signed by the Clerk of the National Assembly, the certificate shall be conclusive for all purposes, and if a Bill in the Schedule is one to which section 58 (5) or 59 (4) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 applies, the Schedule shall, in addition, be endorsed with the prescribed certificate of the President of the Senate in respect of that Bill.
[Cap. C23 L.N. 139 of 1965.]
(4) Nothing in this section shall abrogate any special requirements prescribed for the entrenched sections of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, and any other certificate shall be endorsed and signed by the Clerk of the National Assembly as directed by the President of the Senate, on the Bill before the preparation of the Schedule.