National Directorate of Employment Act

An Act to establish the National Directorate of Employment and to charge it with

the responsibility of designing and implementing programmes to combat unem-

ployment.

[1989 No. 24.)

[19t h October, 1989]

(Commencement.)

Establishment of the National Directorate of Employment

There is hereby established a Directorate to be known as the National Directorate of

Employment (in this Act referred to as “the Directorate”), which under that name shall be

a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and may sue and be sued

in its corporate name.

Objectives of the Directorate

The objectives of the Directorate shall be to-

potential;

with a view to acting as a clearing house to link job seekers with vacancies, in

collaboration with other government agencies; and

Board established under section 3 of this Act.

Establishment, membership and functions of the Board

ferred to as “the Board”), which shall give guidelines for the management of the affairs of

the Directorate.

Labour and Productivity (in this Act referred to as “the Minister”) and fourteen other

members to be appointed by the President, on the recommendation of the Minister, that

is-

ductivity;