Abstract
Presupposition is a Linguistic item that is discussed in both Semantics and Pragmatics. In both cases, it means a speaker or writer's assumption that the listener (hearer) or reader is aware of the sentence or statement being made. The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences (ICPC) Act, 2000 of Nigeria carries syntactic structures that prove this case of presupposition. This is because right from the titles of sections and subsections to the explanation of the sections in the Act, there are assumptions that there will be people in Nigeria (Nigerians or not) who will commit the crimes stated in the Act, and on conviction, will be punished as prescribed by the Act. The study uses Halliday's (1961) Scale and Category demarcation of sentence boundaries to distinguish group structures from clause and sentence structures respectively.
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