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administered by the Chief Justice or such other Judge as may be
designated by the Chief Justice.
(2) Subsection (1) of this section shall apply to any
person called upon to perform the functions of the office of President
as Acting President under section 59 of this Constitution as it applies
to a person elected to hold the office of President under section 54 of
this Constitution.
Immunities
of
President.
65. (1) Subject to subsections (2) to (5) of this section the
President shall not be answerable to any court for the performance of
the functions of his office or for any act done by him in the
performance of those functions.
(2) Without the fiat of the Director of Public
Prosecutions, no criminal proceedings shall be instituted or continued
against the President in any court during his term of office and no
process for the arrest of the President or his imprisonment shall be
issued from any court or shall be executed during his term of office.
(3) No civil proceedings in which relief is claimed
against the President shall be instituted during his term of office in
any court in respect of any act done by him in his personal capacity
whether before or after he entered the office of President, except on
the condition specified in subsection (4) of this section.
(4) The condition referred to in subsection (3) of this
section is that sixty days must elapse after a notice in writing has been
served on him either by registered post or by being left at his office
stating the nature of the proceedings, the cause of action, the name,
description and address of the party instituting the proceedings and the
relief claimed.
(5) A period of limitation prescribed by law shall not
run in favour of the President in respect of a civil action during the
period of sixty days after a notice in respect of that action has been
served on him under subsection (4) of this section.
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