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Produce (Enforcement Of Export Standards) Act

Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Nigeria

An Act to make provision for the inspection of commodities for export from Nigeria at ports of shipment, for enforcement of grades and standards of quality in respect of such commodities, and matters incidental to the execution of the powers conferred by this act. It establishes The Produce Inspection Board and provides for the control of produce destined for exportation. The act shall apply to the produce described in the first schedule to this act. The board shall have advisory functions towards the Minister and states of The Federation. The act also empowers the Minister to make emergency orders for the control in Lagos of pests affecting produce. Where any produce is found within Lagos to be infested or suspected to be infested with any pest, a produce officer may make such order as he may deem necessary for the treatment of such pest. The act also defines wrongful grading of produce to be an offence.

Nigeria 1959 Trade, Industry and Investment

Pest Control of Produce (Special Powers) Act.

Ministry of Agriculture ,Ministry of Rural Development, Nigeria

This is an Act to provide for the inspection of produce for pests before export at all sea and airports in Nigeria and other matters ancillary thereto. It defines powers of inspection and enforcement of any person specially authorized by the Minister of commerce as a pest control inspector of produce. Power of entry conferred by this act shall include the power to fumigate to eradicate or control pest infestation of produce and the power of condemnation of produce. The act also defines the offence of obstruction of inspectors and grants powers to the Minister to make regulations generally for this act in consultation with the Produce Inspection Board.

Nigeria 1968 Agriculture and Rural Development

Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection Act.

Ministry of Health, Nigeria

This is an Act to establish the Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority whose functions shall include the control and regulation of the use of radioactive substances, material, equipment, emitting and generating ionizing radiation. It establishes the Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority and its governing board and the National Institute of Radiation Protection and Research. It also provides for the control of ionizing radiation and the exploration, etc. of materials containing radioactive substances and the packing and transportation of radioactive material and radioactive waste. The Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority shall be charged with the responsibility for nuclear safety and radiological protection regulation in Nigeria. The act requires registration of premises where sources of ionizing radiation are kept. It also provides that no person shall produce or market any consumer product containing radioactive substances without license issued by the Authority.

Nigeria 1995 Health

Urban and Regional Planning Tribunal (Federal Capital Territory, Abuja) (Procedure) Rules.

Ministry of Infrastructure, Nigeria

These regulations, made under section 89 of the Nigerian Urban and Regional Planning Act 1992, provide rules for the composition and proceedings of the Urban and Regional Planning Tribunal of The Federal Capital Territory of Abuja. Where the Secretary of the Tribunal believes that a prima facie case is shown against: (a) a developer; or (b) the control department; (c) any other person, he or she shall formulate the appropriate charge or charges and forward them to The Tribunal together with all the documents to be considered by The Tribunal. Appeal against the decisions of The Tribunal may be had with the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja.

Nigeria 1997 Infrastructure and Construction

Manual for Training Doctors and Nurse/Midwives on Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive (LARC) Methods (Trainer's Manual)

Ministry of Health, Nigeria

Developed by the Federal Ministry of Health, Marie Stopes International Organisation Nigeria (MSION), Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and other partners, this training document outlines the strategy to develop the technical competence of the health workers in the provision of quality Family planning service.

Nigeria 2015 Health

Nigerian Urban and Regional Planning Act 1992.

Ministry of Infrastructure, Nigeria

This Act provides for physical and development planning in Nigeria and the protection of environment from development. It establishes the Development Control Department and the Urban and Regional Planning Tribunal. It also requires, for the initiation, preparation and implementation of the National physical development plans, the Federal, State and Local governments to establish and maintain respectively: (a) a National Urban and Regional Planning Commission; (b) a state urban and regional planning board in each of the states of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja; and (c) a local planning authority in each of the local government areas and the area councils of the Federation.

Nigeria 1992 Infrastructure and Construction

Nigerian Institute of Animal Science Act, 2007.

Ministry of Agriculture ,Ministry of Rural Development, Nigeria

This is an Act to regulate the profession of animal science and to make provisions for the establishment, functions and administration of the Nigerian Institute of Animal Science; and related matters. It establishes The Institute and Incorporation of Animal Science. It also defines the functions of institute to prescribe and regulate the standards of academic qualification and practical skills to be attained by persons seeking to become registered as members, associates or fellows of the institute, establish and maintain a register of animal science practitioners under this act according to their various ranks and to regulate the prerogatives and privileges of those ranks, and advise and encourage the enactment and the enforcement of laws that will guarantee efficient production and consistent supply of high quality animal proteins to Nigerians.

Nigeria 2007 Agriculture and Rural Development

Fertilizer (Control) Act

Ministry of Agriculture ,Ministry of Rural Development, Nigeria

This is an Act to provide for the control of the sale and distribution of fertilizer and matters connected therewith. This Act prohibits the dealing in, selling or distributing of fertilizer in any place not designated for sale or distribution of fertilizer without the permission of the appropriate authority (as defined). The appropriate authority may declare any place to be an approved selling or distributing point to sell or distribute fertilizer. Notwithstanding anything contained in any enactment, no person shall export fertilizer out of Nigeria. The Act defines other offences in respect of the handling of fertilizers, prescribes penalties for such offences and provides for measures of enforcement.

Nigeria 1992 Agriculture and Rural Development

Indian Hemp Act.

Ministry of Agriculture ,Ministry of Rural Development, Nigeria

This is an Act to make the planting, cultivation, importation, etc. of Indian Hemp an offence and to make provisions for other related matters. It prohibits the cultivation, importation, exportation and sale of Indian Hemp. The Act also provides for (corporal) punishment of offences committed under this Act.

Nigeria 1966 Agriculture and Rural Development

Consumer Protection Council Act

Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Nigeria

An Act to provide for the establishment of the Consumer Protection Council and other matters connected therewith. The functions of the Council are to provide speedy redress to consumers’ complaints through negotiation, mediation and conciliation, removing or eliminating from the market hazardous products.

Nigeria 1992 Trade, Industry and Investment

Admiralty Jurisdiction Act (No. 59 of 1991).

Ministry of Transportation, Nigeria

This Act defines the Admiralty Jurisdiction of the Federal High Court, gives an interpretation of ”maritime claim” and makes provision concerning certain procedures and powers of enforcement of the court. Jurisdiction shall include any claim for liability incurred for oil pollution damage and any matter arising from shipping and navigation on any inland waters declared as nation waterways.””

Nigeria 1991 Transportation

Standard of Practice on Obstetric Fistula in Nigeria (Nurses' Version)

Ministry of Health, Nigeria

The document, developed by the Federal Ministry of Health and the United Nations Population Fund, aims to provide a standard reference material that can be used to train health workers in the provision of quality, and evidence-based care for Obstetric Fistula patients.

Nigeria 2011 Health

National Commission For Museums and Monuments Act

Ministry of Infrastructure, Nigeria

This is an Act to provide for the dissolution of both the Antiquities Commission and the Federal Department of Antiquities and to create a National Commission for Museums and Monuments and other matters ancillary thereto. This act establishes the National Commission for Museums And Monuments and regulates its functions, powers, internal organization and external relationships. The Commission shall establish and maintain a fund that shall be used for the promotion of the objectives specified in this act. The Commission shall administer national museums, antiquities and monuments. For the purposes of the discharge of its functions, the commission shall have the power to acquire and dispose of any interests in land or other property.

Nigeria 1990 Infrastructure and Construction

Land Use Act

Ministry of Infrastructure, Nigeria

This is an Act to vest all land comprised in the territory of each state (except land vested in the Federal Government or its agencies) solely in the Governor of the state, who would hold such land in trust for the people and would henceforth be responsible for allocation of land in all urban areas to individuals resident in the state and to organizations for residential, agricultural, commercial and other purposes while similar powers with respect to non-urban areas are conferred on local governments.

Nigeria 1978 Infrastructure and Construction

Agricultural and Rural Management Training Institute Act.

Ministry of Agriculture ,Ministry of Rural Development, Nigeria

An Act to establish a training organization known as the Agricultural and Rural Management Training Institute to provide, among other things, detailed identification of management training needs in agricultural and rural development organizations throughout Nigeria and to develop and implement training programs to meet the needs of managers in the agricultural and rural development sector of the economy. This act establishes the Agricultural and Rural Management Training Institute as a body corporate defines its functions and provides for the administration and operation. The Institute shall provide detailed identification of management training needs in agricultural organizations and technical employees in the rural sector of the economy and develop training programs to meet these needs.

Nigeria 1980 Agriculture and Rural Development

Ports (Related Offences, Etc.) Act

Ministry of Transportation, Nigeria

This is an Act to create offences related to unauthorized entry and carrying on of illegal transactions within any of the ports and to extend the jurisdiction of the chief magistrate courts to the trial of the offences created by the Act.

Nigeria 1996 Transportation

Commodity Boards Act.

Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Nigeria

An Act to dissolve The Nigerian Produce Marketing Company Limited and all the states marketing boards and, in their place, set up six new commodity boards to which certain staff and assets of the dissolved company and boards are to be transferred. It establishes six corporate bodies: the Nigerian Cocoa Board, the Nigerian Groundnut Board, the Nigerian Cotton Board, the Nigerian Palm Produce Board, the Nigerian Rubber Board and the Nigerian Grains Board.

Nigeria 1977 Trade, Industry and Investment

Community Banks Act

Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Nigeria

This is an Act to provide for the establishment of community banks and other matters connected therewith. It provides for the establishment of the National Board for Community Banks, etc. It also states the functions of the Board, it includes responsibility for accepting and processing applications for the setting up of banks throughout Nigeria, incorporating banks as private companies with the membership of fifty or more persons and determining the fees to be paid from time to time, undertaking such other activities as are necessary or expedient for giving full effect to the provisions of this act etc.

Nigeria 1992 Finance

Directorate Of Food, Roads And Rural Infrastructures Act

Ministry of Infrastructure, Nigeria

This is an Act to establish the Directorate of Food, Roads and Rural Infrastructures for the Mobilization Of Rural Communities and the development of the rural areas in Nigeria; and to charge the directorate with diverse functions directed towards the improvement of the quality of the life in the rural areas.

Nigeria 1986 Infrastructure and Construction

Estate Surveyors And Valuers (Registration, Etc.) Act

Ministry of Infrastructure, Nigeria

This is an Act that establishes The Estate Surveyors and Valuers Registration Board of Nigeria as a body corporate and to empowers the board inter alia to determine persons who are to become estate surveyors and valuers and what standards of knowledge and skill are to be attained by such persons and to make provisions for other matters connected therewith. It establishes The Estate Surveyors and Valuers Registration Board of Nigeria and also states the functions of the board. The Board will be responsible for determining who are estate surveyors and valuers for this Act, determining what standards of knowledge and skill are to be attained by persons seeking to become registered as estate surveyors and valuers.

Nigeria 1975 Infrastructure and Construction