Section 2: Appointment and tenure of office of members, etc.

(1) The members of the Commission shall be appointed by the President and shall consist of four full-time Commissioners, one of whom shall be designated as the chairman.
(2) The persons appointed to be full-time Commissioners under subsection (1) of this section shall (except as already provided therein) be persons appearing to the National Assembly to be suitably qualified-
(a) by the holding of a high judicial office;
(b) by experience as a legal practitioner of not less than twelve years standing; or
(c) by being an eminent scholar in law.
(3) A person who holds high judicial office may be appointed as a Commissioner without relinquishing that office, but shall not (unless otherwise provided by the terms of his appointment) be required to perform his duties as the holder of that office while he remains a member of the Commission and such appointment shall not affect his tenure of that judicial office or his rank, title, status, precedence and (except where this is less than as prescribed in subsection (6) of this section) salary or allowances or other rights and privileges as the holder of that judicial office and, accordingly, his service as a member of the Commission shall be taken to be service as the holder of that judicial office.
(4) Subject to subsection (5) of this section, a person appointed as a Commissioner shall hold office for five years and shall be eligible for reappointment for one further period of five years.
(5) The National Assembly may terminate the appointment of a member on grounds of misbehaviour or inability to discharge the duties of his office by reason of physical or mental incapacity:
Provided that this subsection shall not apply to a member who is the holder of a high judicial office, but if a member who is the holder of a high judicial office ceases to hold such office, the National Assembly may terminate his appointment.
(6) There shall be paid to every Commissioner such salaries and allowances as the President may, from time to time, direct:
Provided that the salary and allowances of the chairman shall not be less than such as are paid to a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
(7) Except in the case of persons holding high judicial office, the chairman and the full-time Commissioners shall not while holding office as Commissioners hold any other offices of emolument either in the public service or in any other service whatsoever.