Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria Act

An Act to establish a corporation to operate, maintain and control factories for the manufacture, storage and disposal of ordnance and ancillary stores and materiel; to provide for alteration in any such manufacture, storage and disposal at any time; and for related matters.

[1st August, 1964] [Commencement. ]

1. Defence Industry Corporation of Nigeria

(1) On the appointed day, the assets of the Government of the Federation in any land or any building thereon erected or in course of erection as an ordnance factory (as hereafter referred to in this section) and so designated in such order as to sufficient identity shall vest in and be operated, maintained and controlled by the corporation hereafter mentioned.

(2) There shall be established with effect from the appointed day, a corporation to be known as the Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria (in this Act referred to as "the Corporation") which shall be a body corporate and be charged with-

(a) the operation, maintenance and control in such place or places in Nigeria as the Minister may require, of factories, (in this Act referred to as "ordnance factories") for the manufacture, storage and materiel intended for or capable of being used by the armed forces and such other forces or persons as the President may authorise, and vested in the Corporation under subsection (1) of this section or hereafter erected on land the location of which is approved by the Minister;

(b) the inspection or testing, as the case may be, of ordnance and materiel;

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