This document was designed under the provisions of section 7 and fourth schedule to the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) and the Nasarawa State local government laws of 2018 and other applicable enabling Laws, Karu Local government council, promulgates the local government bye-laws in the interest of the people, for their protection and the promotion of their prosperity and welfare. It describes enabling law, application, functions of the local government council, and establishment of the local government council departments.

This document specifies the close season for the cultivation of cotton from 15 February to 15 June of each year. No seeds shall be planted or cotton is grown during this period and all cotton plants shall be removed or burned before the close season. An inspecting officer may order compulsory burning or removal of cotton plants.

The decree amends the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture decree 1967. Among other things, the decree amends the composition of the board of trustees of the Institute and empowers the Institute the power to borrow money for its purposes.

This Act provides for the control, regulation, and protection of sea fisheries in the territorial waters of Nigeria. The first part of the Act describes the licensing of motor fishing boats; the second part concerns enforcement, the prohibition of certain fishing methods, and offences and penalties.

These bylaws define the purposes and program of the IITA. The document states the program will be implemented through the financial support of the member nations, private foundation agencies, and other international agricultural research organizations with the cooperation of the Nigerian Government.

The decree states that the institute was established and maintained as an autonomous, non-stock, philanthropic, non-profit and tax-free corporation having and exercising the functions hereinafter appearing and that the proposal aforesaid should be construed accordingly. Therefore, the government hereby decrees that an institute known as the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (hereafter in this decree referred to as ” the Institute”) would be established to exercise the functions and powers and pursue the objectives assigned to it by this Decree. The Institute shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal which shall be kept in the custody of the chairman of the board of trustees or of the director if so authorized by the board. The Institute shall also have the general responsibility for undertaking studies of and research into tropical agriculture and of providing information thereon to representatives of governments or groups or bodies of persons, interested in tropical agriculture

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The objectives of the environmental impact assessment are to establish, before a decision is taken by any person, authority, corporate body or unincorporated body, including the Government of the Federation, State or Local government intending to undertake or authorize the undertaking of any activity, those matters that may likely or to a significant extent affect the environment or have an environmental effect on those activities and which shall first be taken into account, to promote the implementation of appropriate policy in all Federal Lands (however acquired) States and local government areas, consistent with all laws and decision‐making processes through which the goal and objective in paragraph (a) of this section may be realized and to encourage the development of procedures for information exchange, notification and consultation between organs and persons when proposed activities are likely to have significant environmental effects on boundary or trans‐State or on the environment of bordering town and villages.

This is an Act to prohibit the carrying, depositing and dumping of harmful waste on any land, territorial waters and matters relating thereto. A person shall be deemed to deposit or dump harmful waste under this Act if he deposits or dumps the harmful waste, whether solid, semi‐solid or liquid, in such circumstances, or for such period that he may be deemed to have abandoned it where it is deposited or dumped or to have brought it to the place where it is so deposited or dumped for its being disposed of or abandoned whether by him or any other person.

This document focuses on key issues that revolve around how emerging trends in the global maritime industry affects the shipping and maritime sector in Nigeria, domestic factors that will influence the sector and progress on the drive to mitigate challenges in the sector.

This document provides for the merchant shipping which comprises the foreign going ships, near coastal ships and need to have radio operators, doctors and cooks on foregoing ships.

This document provides regulations for the summoning of a marine board. It emphasizes that when any investigation has been ordered, the minister shall summon the board by summons as in form I in the schedule to these regulations and he shall, at the same time, cause notice of the siting as in form 2 in the schedule to these regulations to be served upon the attorney general and upon the owner, master and officers of the ship and upon any other person who in his opinion ought to be served.

These rules apply to Nigerian and other ships while they are within any port in Nigeria provided that these rules shall not apply to a ship because of it being within a port in Nigeria if the ship is in the port due to weather or stress or any other circumstances that the owner cannot prevent or forestall.

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These rules apply to Nigerian and other ships of any other nationality while they are within any port in Nigeria for reasons unconnected with the stress of weather or any other circumstance that the owner can prevent and forestall. The document provides the classification of ships (passengers’ ships and non-passenger ships)

These rules apply to all ships carrying timber deck cargo. Part II of this document contains additional rules that apply to steamers marked with timber load lines when loaded beyond the maximum depth to which they would for the time being be entitled under the load line rules to be loaded if they were not marked with timber load-lines.

Where necessary, the measure of the tonnage of a ship in Nigeria shall be ascertained under these regulations. Its application for registration of a ship in Nigeria shall be made by the owner to the Minister in a form prescribed by the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency.

These regulations apply to all Nigeria sea-going ships except fishing boats and pleasure yachts. Regulation 3 provides that every person to order a ship to which these regulations apply constructed shall create, during construction, a plan of the ship on a scale not smaller than 1 in 100, to be submitted to a surveyor of ships on a day not later than the day on which the keel of the ship is laid, showing clearly the proposed arrangement of the crew accommodation in the ship and its proposed position concerning other spaces therein.

These regulations apply to any certificate of competence issued under the act and to any other certificate of competence issued under the act and to any other certificate or document issued under the Act other than one certifying that a person is qualified as an officer.

The document is concerned with the health of seafarers. It provides that a ship must carry a ship’s medical guide adopted by the Minister. The medical guide explains how the contents of a medicine chest are to be used and also permits someone that is not a doctor to care for the sick or injured onboard a ship.