Section 114: Attorney-General

(1) There is an Attorney-General appointed by the President.

(2) A person who has been appointed as Attorney-General assumes office upon taking before the President, or a person authorised by the President, the oaths of loyalty and office in the forms set out in the Third Schedule.

(3) A person is qualified for appointment as Attorney-General if he or she is qualified for appointment as a judge of the High Court.

(4) The functions of the Attorney-General are⎯

    (a) to act as the principal legal adviser to the Government;

    (b) to represent the Government in civil and constitutional proceedings;

    (c) to draft legislation on behalf of the Government;

    (d) to promote, protect and uphold the rule of law and to defend the public interest; and

    (e) to exercise any other functions that may be assigned to the Attorney-General by an Act

of Parliament; and the Attorney-General may exercise those functions in person or through subordinate officers acting under the Attorney-General’s general or specific instructions.

(5) The Attorney-General may—

    (a) attend Cabinet meetings, but has no vote;

    (b) sit and speak in the Senate and the National Assembly, but has no vote; and

    (c) with the leave of the court concerned, appear as a friend of the court in any civil

proceedings to which the Government is not a party.