CHAPTER 3
THE PRESIDENT
38. Immunities of President
38. (1) Subject to section 36, 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 President’s arrest or 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).
(4) The condition referred to in subsection (3) is that two months 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 two months after a notice in respect of that action has been served on him under subsection (4).
State privileges and immunities
Immunity - national proceedings
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