Section 7: References by States.

(1) Notwithstanding section 5 (1) of this Act, the Commission shall have powers to consider proposal for reform of State laws from any state, group of states or all the states in the Federation and submit report thereon to the appropriate Attorney-General and the State House of Assembly.
(2) The Commission may, whether under subsection (1) or on its own initiative, consider or put forward proposal for the consideration of the State Attorneys-General and the State Houses of Assembly, or such number of them as may be appropriate in the circumstances, for uniformity between
laws of the States or, as the case may require, the groups of State concerned.
(3) The expenses involved in any references under subsection (1) shall be borne by the Governments of the State concerned.
(4) The provisions of sections 5 and 6 of this Act shall apply with all necessary modifications to any reference made under this section, and accordingly, reference therein to the Attorney-General of a State or the State House of Assembly or reference to the President shall be read as if they were
reference to Governor of a State.
(5) In this section, "State laws" includes any law which is not a Federal law as defined in section 5 (10) of this Act.