Section 1: Establishment of the Department of National Civic Registration

(1) There is hereby established within the Federal Ministry of Internal Affairs, a department to be known as the Department of National Civic Registration (in this Act referred to as "the Department") which shall be responsible in accordance with the following provisions of this Act, for national civic registration of all citizens of Nigeria of, or above the age of eighteen years.
(2) The Department shall consist of a Director of National Civic Registration and such number of other staff as may be required to assist the Director in the execution of his duties under this Act.
(3)
The Director and the other members of staff of the Department sball be members of the public service of the Federation within the meaning of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999.
[Cap. C23.]