Section 28: Establishment and membership of Census Tribunals

(1)
There shall be established in designated centres, Census Tribunals to hear complaints and objections to census results, as they relate to specific local government areas or localities.
[1991 No. 31.]
(2) The Census Tribunals established by subsection (1) of this section shall consist of a chairman and two other members, who shall be persons of unquestionable integrity, who have not been involved in party politics.
(3) The chairman shall be a person who has held office or is qualified to hold the office of a Judge of a High Court.
(4) One of the members shall be a legal practitioner, who has been so qualified for a period of not less than five years and the other shall be a non-member of the legal profession.
(5) The chairman and other members shall be appointed by the Chief Justice of Nigeria.
(6)
Where any complaint or objection is upheld by the Census Tribunal, the President may order a statistical verification or a recount of the particular area concerned, in order to correct the anomaly.
[1991 No. 31.]
(7)
The rules of procedure to be adopted by the Census Tribunal in hearing complaints and objections to census results, shall be as set out in the Third Schedule to this Act.
[1992 No. 26. Third Schedule.]