Section 3: Unnecessary repetition of oath.

(1) Except in the case of the President, no person who has duly taken the Oath of Allegiance or the Judicial Oath in Nigeria as provided in this Act shall be required again to take that oath on appointment to any other office or on any other occasion.
(2) A person appointed to act in any office or capacity in the place of any officer or person, shall not be required to take any oath on the occasion of such appointment, unless the oath required to be taken in respect of such appointment is different from or in addition to any oath duly taken by him in respect of any other appointment, permanent or temporary.
(3) For the avoidance of doubt and notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, a person holding an office or position specified in the second column of the Second Schedule to this Act shall, on or as soon as may be convenient after the first day of October, nineteen hundred and sixty-three, take the oath prescribed for that office in the first column of the said Schedule.
[1967 No. 37.]