Nigerian Red Cross Society Act

An Act to incorporate the Nigerian Red Cross Society.

[L.N. 205 of 1961. 1960 No. 52.]

[1 st January, 1961]

[Commencement.]

Short title and application

[L.N.139 of 1965.]

effect in a State unless and until the Governor of the State by notice in the State Gazette

declares it shall apply.

Interpretation

In this Act-

“the Society” means the Nigerian Red Cross Society constituted by this Act.

Incorporation of Nigerian Red Cross Society

For the purpose of maintaining and carrying on the objects set out in section 4 of this

Act, the president, trustees, officers and members of the former branch, and all persons

who may hereafter become president, officer or members of the Society in the manner

laid down in the rules of the Society, are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name

of the Nigerian Red Cross Society, and shall have perpetual succession and a common

seal and power to sue and be sued in its corporate name and to acquire, hold and dispose

of movable and immovable property.

Purposes of the Society

and among non-belligerents, and to prisoners of war and civilian sufferers

from the effects of war, in accordance with the spirit and conditions of the

conventions set out in the Schedule to this Act;

[Schedule.]

which has acceded to the said conventions;

health, the prevention of disease and mitigation of suffering throughout the

world;

and enjoyed by and all the duties heretofore performed by the former branch.

Council of the Society in accordance with section 7 of this Act: Provided that nothing in such

purposes shall be inconsistent with the provisions of this Act or with the spirit and intention of the said conventions.