Laws.Africa Editor Guide
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  • Welcome
  • Getting started
    • Lesson plan
    • Signing up
    • Digitising legislation
    • What is Akoma Ntoso
    • Terminology guide
  • Managing Works
    • Creating and editing works
      • Working with commencements
    • Deleting a document
    • Amending works
      • Creating the amending work
      • Linking the amendment
      • Creating a new document at the new point in time
      • Applying the amendments
      • Annotating the amendments
      • Example
      • Exercise
      • Consolidating the annotations
        • Simple example
        • Complicated example
    • Bulk imports (spreadsheet)
  • How-tos
    • Tasks
    • Importing a document
      • The importer
    • Cleaning up an import
    • Going back to a previous version of a document
    • Fixing all-caps headings
    • Working with tables
      • Table errors
    • Working with links
    • Working with italicised terms
    • Inserting an image
    • Inserting special characters
    • Resolving editor warnings
    • Making comments
    • Inserting editorial notes
    • Changing a document's date
    • Changing a document's short title or language
    • Search and rescue
    • How to handle different language documents
    • How to mark up defined terms which do not occur in a Definitions section
    • Very complicated amendments
      • Research
      • Undo some amendments?
      • Update the timeline
      • Create the tasks
      • Apply the amendments
  • Markup guide
    • Introduction
    • Marking up the structure
    • Preface, Long title, and Preamble
    • Headings
    • Marking up Schedules / Annexes
    • Marking up annotations
    • Marking up tables
    • Marking up links
    • Marking up images
    • Marking up footnotes
    • Marking up formatting
    • Marking up insertions and deletions
    • Keyword reference
  • Reviewing a document
    • Reviewing a document
    • Reviewer checklist
    • Signing off a work
  • Style Guides
    • Laws.Africa
    • Côte d'Ivoire
    • Ghana
    • Namibia
      • Regulations
    • Lesotho
    • Malawi
    • Nigeria
    • Zambia
    • South African Acts
    • South African By-laws
    • Tanzania
    • Uganda
    • UNEP
    • Zimbabwe
    • Seychelles
    • Mauritius
    • Pan-African Parliament/ AGP
    • Turks and Caicos
    • Papua New Guinea
    • eSwatini
    • Rwanda
    • Documents in languages other than English
  • Administration
    • Site settings
    • Managing administrators
    • Countries and localities
    • Document subtypes
    • Task labels
    • Taxonomies
    • Notion templates
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  • Cleaning up
  • Editorial remarks
  • Subsidiary legislation
  • Use Sections in Schedules
  1. Style Guides

Nigeria

Style guide for importing and marking up legislation for Nigeria.

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Last updated 3 years ago

Cleaning up

Editorial remarks

Do not remove remarks that indicate amendments, such as [1992 No. 59].

Do use double squares around editorial remarks in Edit mode: [[1992 No. 59.]] This will show up as italics, single square brackets in View mode: [1992 No. 59.]

Remove remarks that reference Caps and Schedules.

Subsidiary legislation

Remove any subsidiary legislation after the Act, including if it says 'No subsidiary legislation'. Delete the name of the Act as well.

The document should end with the last Schedule to the main Act, or with the last section of the main Act if it has no Schedules.

Use Sections in Schedules

Prefer to use Sections in Schedules rather than Crossheadings.

If a title appears to belong to only one numbered Section, mark it as a Section, not as a Crossheading.

Mark up these sections like this:

  SEC 1. - Supplementary provisions as to the Corporation

    SUBSEC (1)

      A member of the corporation may at any time ...

    SUBSEC (2)

      If the chairman is appointed to be ...

    SUBSEC (3)

      If the chairman is absent from ...

  SEC 2. - Eligibility for reappointment

    A member of the Corporation who ...