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Guidelines for the Administration, Disbursement, Monitoring and Fund Management of the Basic Healthcare Provision Fund

Ministry of Health, Nigeria

These Guidelines define the process of administering, disbursing, monitoring, and managing the Basic Healthcare Provision Fund. It also set out the processes to be applied, expectations from and responsibilities of the various actors involved. The guidelines were referenced to the These Guidelines have been drawn up with specific reference to the National Health Act of 2014.

Nigeria 2016 Health

National Environmental Protection (Management of Solid and Hazardous Wastes) Regulations.

Ministry of Health, Nigeria

The objectives of solid and hazardous waste management are to identify solid, toxic and extremely hazardous wastes dangerous to public health and the environment and provide guidelines necessary to establish a system of proper record keeping, sampling and labelling of hazardous wastes. Regulation 20 provides for the notification of discharge of waste. It is stated that the Agency shall instruct the person responsible for the spillage or discharge to clean up all released dangerous harmful wastes or hazardous substances within the time or days as may be specified, designate and treat, store or dispose of all solids, water or other materials contaminated by the spillage or discharge under specific directives given in that behalf by the agency or any person or authority authorized in that behalf to issue the directive and restore the area affected by the spillage or discharge and replenish resources in a manner acceptable to the Agency or any other person or authority authorized in that behalf by the Agency.

Nigeria 1991 Health

Federal Lands Registry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act.

Ministry of Agriculture ,Ministry of Rural Development, Nigeria

This is an Act to provide for the establishment of the Federal Lands Registry to register all titles to Federal Government lands and for other related matters. The regulation also outlines the power of the Minister to give directives to the Registry.

Nigeria Agriculture and Rural Development

Federal Mortgage Bank Of Nigeria Act

Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Nigeria

This is an Act to establish the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria to provide long-term credit facilities to mortgage institutions in Nigeria and to encourage and promote the development of mortgage institutions at the Local, State and Federal levels of government.

Nigeria 1993 Finance

Federal School of Surveying Act.

Ministry of Education, Nigeria

This is an Act to establish the Federal School of Surveying to provide courses of instruction and training in surveying, cartography, photograph, lithography, hydrography and other related courses and to make provisions for related matters. It establishes the Federal School of Surveying. Some of the functions of the School shall be to provide courses of instruction, training and research in surveying, cartography, photography, lithography, hydrography, photogrammetry, remote sensing and other related courses, produce technical, professional and such other skilled personnel, normally required for surveying and mapping duties and provide specialized professional training for registration as surveyors.

Nigeria 1990 Education

Tenancy Law 2011

Ministry of Infrastructure, Nigeria

This is a law to regulate rights and obligations under tenancy agreements and their relationship between the landlord and the tenant including the procedure for the recovery of premises and other connected purposes.

Nigeria 2011 Infrastructure and Construction

Hides And Skins (Authorized Persons) Notice

Ministry of Agriculture ,Ministry of Rural Development, Nigeria

A notice made under regulation 2 of The Hides and Skins regulations, designates authorized persons for purposes of the Regulations. The designated officers are assistant directors of veterinary services, senior veterinary officers, veterinary officers, assistant veterinary officers, principal hides improvement officers, hides and skins instructors etc.

Nigeria 1954 Agriculture and Rural Development

National Policy on Gender in Agriculture

Ministry of Agriculture ,Ministry of Rural Development, Nigeria

The National Gender Policy in Agriculture is a gender-focused strategy that complements existing policies in the agriculture sector and the National Gender Policy, 2006. This policy operates at the intersection of agriculture and gender.

Nigeria 2016 Agriculture and Rural Development

National Guideline for The Control and Management of Sickle Cell Disease

Ministry of Health, Nigeria

This policy document highlights the process to ensure that the health sector provides uniformity and standardized procedure in the control and management of Sickle Cell Disease in all health facilities across Nigeria. Furthermore, this guideline displays the government’s effort to reduce the burden of the disease amongst patients.

Nigeria 2014 Health

Food and Drugs Act

Ministry of Health, Nigeria

This Act provides rules for the manufacture, importation, exportation, distribution and advertisement of food and drugs. It also grants power to the Minister to set up the Food and Drugs Advisory Council and to make regulations for carrying out the purposes and provisions of this Act. No person shall sell, import, manufacture or store any article of food which: (a) has in it or upon it any poisonous or harmful substance not being a food additive or contaminant of a type and within the level permitted by regulations made under this Act; (b) is unfit for human consumption; or (c) consists in whole or in part of any filthy, disgusting, rotten or diseased substance; (d) adulterated; (e) stored under unsanitary conditions. The Minister may, on the recommendation of the Food and Drugs Advisory Council, and subject to the provisions of this section, designate: (a) a food and drug analyst; or (b) a drug analyst; or (c) a food and drug inspection officer. The Act also specifies the power of inspecting officers on importation of food, etc.

Nigeria 1976 Health

Water Resources Act.

Ministry of Infrastructure, Nigeria

This is an Act to promote the optimum planning, development and use of Nigeria’s water resources and other matters connected therewith. It vests the right to use and control all surface and groundwater and all water in any watercourse affecting more than one state, together with the banks and beds thereof, in the Federal Government (sect. 1). The purposes for this vesting are listed as the promotion of planning, development and use of Nigeria’s water resources; coordination of activities likely to influence the quality, quantity, use, distribution and management of water; the application of appropriate standards and techniques for use, protection, etc.; and technical assistance and rehabilitation for water supplies (sect. 1). Notwithstanding the vesting of water resources in the Federal Government, persons may take water for a variety of uses, including domestic uses, the watering of livestock, fishing and navigation, and the irrigation of land over which they have rights of occupancy (sect. 2). Section 4 gives the Secretary power to control the use or taking of groundwater by various means, including defining the places from where and means by which it can be abstracted; fixing of limits on amounts used; prohibiting the taking or use of water from particular sources to protect health etc.

Nigeria 1993 Infrastructure and Construction

National Interim Guidelines and Standards for Industrial Effluents, Gaseous Emissions And Hazardous Wastes Management In Nigeria

Ministry of Health, Nigeria

The Interim guidelines and standards cover the six areas of environmental pollution control are developed by The Federal Environmental Protection Agency (FEPA). These guidelines and standards on environmental pollution control include: (i)effluent limitations (ii) water quality for industrial water uses at point of in-take (iii) industrial emission limitations (iv) noise exposure limitations (v) management of solid and hazardous wastes (vi) pollution abatement in industries

Nigeria 1991 Health

Land Use Act (Validation of Certain Laws, etc.) Act

Ministry of Infrastructure, Nigeria

This is an Act that regularizes the issuance of regulations by state governments under the Land Use Act. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Land Use Act or any other enactment, all laws, and subsidiary legislation made at any time between the commencement of the Land Use Act and 30th September 1979 by a military administrator (or former military governor), The Executive Council, a commissioner or any other authority or any public officer of a state are deemed to have been validly made and will have effect as if they had been made under or according to the Land Use act and will also continue to have effect according to their tenor and intendment as if they were regulations made under or according to section 46 of that Act.

Nigeria 1979 Infrastructure and Construction

Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation Decree No 37 of 1993

Ministry of Agriculture ,Ministry of Rural Development, Nigeria

Regulation 3 and 4 provides the functions and powers of the Corporation. They include: to implement, manage and administer the Agricultural Insurance Scheme, established by section 6 of this decree, to subsidize the premiums chargeable on selected crops and livestock policies from the grants obtained from the federal and state governments and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, to encourage institutional lenders to lend more for agricultural production having regard to the added security for their loans provided by the corporation, to promote increased agricultural production generally in order to minimize or eliminate the need for ad Hoc assistance previously provided by governments during agricultural disasters, to carry on insurance business on normal commercial basis and without subsidies on premiums as insurers of buildings, machineries, equipment and other items which form part of the total investment on farms and to reinsure this aspect of its operations through well-established channels with reputable reinsurance companies, to operate other types of insurance business as may be permitted by the commissioner of insurance at competitive premiums and to do anything or to enter into any transaction which in the opinion of the board is calculated to facilitate the due performance of its functions under this decree.

Nigeria 1993 Agriculture and Rural Development

Tribunals (Certain Consequential Amendments, etc.) Decree No 62 of 1999

Ministry of Justice, Nigeria

The Federal High Court or the High Court of a state, as the case may be, shall have jurisdiction to try the offences created under the enactments specified in the schedule to this decree. Enactments include the Food and Drugs Act and the National Agency for Food And Drugs Administration and Control Decree 1993. Accordingly, a tribunal established in any of the enactments specified in the schedule to this decree is hereby dissolved. A charge, claim or court process filed before a tribunal established under any of the enactments specified in the schedule to this decree shall be deemed to have been duly filed or served before the Federal High Court or High Court of a state, as the case may be and such charge, claim and court process shall be deemed amended as to title, venue and such other matter as may be appropriate to give effect to this subsection without further assurance than this decree.

Nigeria 1999 Democracy and Governance

Marine Insurance Act.

Ministry of Transportation, Nigeria

This is an Act to provide for marine insurance and to prohibit gambling on loss by maritime perils. Regulation 3 defines marine insurance. A contract of marine insurance is a contract whereby the insurer undertakes to indemnify the assured, in a manner and to the extent thereby agreed, against marine losses, that is to say, the losses incident to marine adventure. Regulation 4 concerns mixed sea and land risks. The Act also covers Marine adventure and maritime perils, avoidance of wagering or gaming contracts.

Nigeria 1961 Transportation