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Functions.
212. The Attorney-General shall be the principal legal advisor to
the Government.
213. (1) Subject to section 211 of this Constitution, if the office
of Attorney-General is vacant, or if the holder of that office is for any
reason unable to exercise the functions of his office the President, acting
in accordance with the advice of the Judicial and Legal Services
Commission, may appoint a person to act as Attorney-General.
(2) A person appointed to act in the office of Attorney-
General shall, subject to the provisions of sections 216 and 217 of this
Constitution, cease so to act -
(a)
when a person is appointed to hold that office
and has assumed the functions thereof or, as
the case may be, when the person in whose
place he is acting resumes the functions of that
office; or
at such earlier time as may be prescribed by
the terms of his appointment.
Acting.
(b)
Oaths.
Second
Schedule.
214. When the office of Attorney-General is a public office, the
Attorney-General shall not enter upon the duties of his office unless he
has taken and subscribed the oaths of allegiance and of office, as set out
in the Second Schedule to this Constitution.
215. In the exercise of the functions vested in him by section 213
of this Constitution, the Attorney-General shall not be subject to the
direction or control of any other person or authority.
216. (1) Subject to the provisions of section 217 of this
Constitution the Attorney-General, when his office is a public office, shall
vacate his office when he attains the prescribed age.
(2) The prescribed age for the purposes of subsection (1)
of this section is the age of sixty years or such other age as may be
prescribed by Parliament:
Not subject
to direction
or control.
Vacating
office.
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