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National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (Establishment) Act

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART I

Establishment of the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency

SECTION

1.     Establishment of the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency.

PART II

National Oil Spill Response Governing Board, etc.

  1. Establishment of the Governing Board of the Agency.
  2. Tenure of Office.
  3. Cessation of membership.

PART III

Objectives, etc., of the Agency

  1. Objectives of the Agency.
  2. Functions of the Agency.
  3. Special functions of the Agency.

PART IV

Director-General and other Staff of the Agency, etc.

  1. Appointment of the Director-General of the Agency.
  2. Other employees of the Agency.
  3. Pensions Reform Act, No.2 of 2004.

PART V

Financial Provisions

11.     Fund of the Agency.

  1. Expenditure of the Agency.
  2. Annual estimates and accounts.
  3. Annual reports.
  4. Power to accept gift.
  5. Power to borrow.
  6. Investment.

PART VI

Establishment of National Control and Response Centre

18.     Establishment of National Control and Response Centre.

PART VII

Federal Government Intervention, etc.

SECTION

19.     Federal Government intervention; etc.

PART VIII

Legal Proceedings

  1. Limitations of suits against the Agency, etc.
  2. Service of documents.
  3. Restriction on execution against property of the Agency.
  4. Indemnity of officers.
  5. Secrecy.
  6. Directives by the Minister, etc.
  7. Regulations.
  8. Interpretation.
  9. Short title.

SCHEDULES

FIRST SCHEDULE

Supplementary Provisions relating to the Governing Board, etc.

SECOND SCHEDULE

NATIONAL OIL SPILL DETECTION AND RESPONSE AGENCY (ESTABLISHMENT) ACT

An Act to provide for the establishment of the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency; and for related matters.

                                            [ Commenced]

ENACTED by the National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

PART I

Establishment of the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency

  1. Establishment of the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency
(1) There is established an Agency to be known as the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (in this Act referred to as “the Agency”) with responsibility for preparedness, detection and response to all oil spillages in Nigeria as set out in section 5 of this Act.
(2) The Agency-
(a) shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal; and

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