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Petroleum Control Act 1967

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1. PETROLEUM CONTROL ACT

2. (b) any deputy controller,

3. (1) Where the controller is satisfied that during any period of public emergency, a person

4. (a) has refused or failed to enter into a contract, or

5. (1) Where any importer, that is to say, the Federal Government or any Minister or departme

6. (1) Subject to the provisions of this section and notwithstanding any other provision of t

7. The controller may make regulations generally for the purpose of this Act and, without pre

8. (1) A license under this Act may be revoked at any time and without reason assigned, or fo

9. (1) Where an offence is prescribed under this Act, it shall be punishable on conviction by

10. (1) This Act may be cited as The Petroleum Control Act.

PETROLEUM CONTROL ACT

1967

An Act to empower the Minister charged with responsibility for petroleum to conrtrol and regulate activities of petroleum companies on petroleum and petroleum products. Commencement. [13th July, 1967]

PETROLEUM CONTROL ACT

1. (1) There shall be for the purpose of this Act, competent authorities to control the storage, transport and distribution of petroleum.

(2) The person responsible for co-ordination and control of storage, transport and distribution of petroleum shall be the Minister of Petroleum Resources (hereafter in the Act referred to as “the controller”), and the Governor shall, in the State under his control, appoint a fit person to be a deputy controller in that state.
(3) To the extent to which no appointment of fit person for the purposes of this section is made by the controller, any deputy controller may, in his own State, appoint fit persons for the purpose, or may himself delegate the power to appoint according to circumstances existing at any particular time.
(4) Appointments of fit persons under this section may be made either by name or by designing the holder for the time being of any particular office.
(5) In the application of this section, the following shall be “competent authorities”, that is to say-
(a) the controller,
(b) any deputy controller,
(c) other fit persons appointed under this section. Competent authorites to control, etc, petroleum.

(b) any deputy controller,

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