Section 1: Establishment of the Computer Professionals (Registration Council of Nigeria)

(1) There is hereby established a body to be known as the Computer Professionals (Registration Council of Nigeria) (in this Act referred to as "the Council") which shall have the objective of advancing the knowledge of computer science and the use of computational machinery and techniques related thereto.
(2)
Subject to this Act, the Council shall have the control and supervision of the profession.
(3) The Council shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and may sue and be sued in its corporate name