Section 13: Applicable laws in the Federal Capital Territory

(1) In addition to any law having effect, or made applicable throughout the Federation, the laws set out in the Second Schedule to this Act shall as from 9 May, 1984 apply in the Federal Capital Territory.
[Second Schedule]
(2) Where any of the laws set out in the Second Schedule had effect in the former Federal Territory of Lagos and any such law, whether by reason of the creation of States in Nigeria or otherwise howsoever, had become obsolete, such laws shall by virtue of this Act be reviewed and shall apply in the Federal Capital Territory as provided in subsection (1) above.
(3) The laws set out in the Second Schedule to this Act and applying in the Federal Capital Territory by virtue of subsection (1) of this section shall have effect with such modifications as may be necessary to bring them into conformity with the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and, in particular-
[Second Schedule]
(a) references in any such laws to Region, State or Federal Territory of Lagos shall, unless the context otherwise requires be construed as references to the Federal Capital Territory;
(b) functions conferred by any such law on the Governor, Premier, Military Governor or Administrator, Minister or any Commissioner in the Government of a State shall, without prejudice to the exercise of those functions by the President and until other provision in respect of any such function is made by the authority having power to do so, vest in the Minister charged with responsibility for the Federal Capital Territory.
(4) The President may by order published in the Federal Gazette make such changes in the text of the laws set out in the Second Schedule to this Act as would bring those laws into conformity with the provisions of this Act.