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Section 54: Vice President.

In force, as amendedThe Constitution of Sierra Leone, 1991, Sierra Leone

(1) There shall be a Vice-President of the Republic of Sierra Leone who shall be the Principal Assistant to the
President in the discharge of his executive functions.
(2) A person—
a. shall be designated a candidate for the office of Vice-President by a Presidential candidate before a
Presidential election;
b. shall not be qualified to be a candidate for the office of Vice-President unless he has the qualifications
specified in section 41.
(3) A candidate shall be deemed to be duly elected as Vice-President if the candidate who designated him as
candidate for election to the office of Vice-President has been duly elected as President in accordance with the
provisions of section 42.
(4) The Vice-President shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe the oath of Vice-
President as set out in the Third Schedule of this Constitution.
(5) Whenever the office of the Vice-President is vacant, or the Vice-President dies, resigns, retires or is removed
from office, the President shall appoint a person qualified to be elected as a Member of Parliament to the office of
Vice-President with effect from the date of such vacancy, death, resignation, retirement or removal.
(6) Whenever the President and Vice-President are both for any reason unable to perform the functions of the
President, the Speaker of Parliament shall perform those functions until the President or Vice-President is able to
perform those functions, and shall take and subscribe the oath of office as set out in the Second Schedule before
commencing to perform those functions.
(7) Where the Speaker of Parliament assumes the office of President as a result of the death, resignation or removal
from office of the President and Vice-President, there shall be a Presidential election within ninety days of that
assumption of office.
(8) The provisions of sections 50 and 51 of this Constitution, relating to the removal from office of the President,
shall apply to the removal from office of the Vice-President.
Vacancy in the office of

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