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Public Accounts Implementation Tribunal Act

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4. officer in the public service of the Federation.

5. Committee.

6. bunal.

9. order of the Tribunal.

10. be signed by the Chairman.

11. imprisonment for a term of one month.

12. before it.

13. the Tribunal.

14. No members of the Tribunal shall be liable to any action or suit for any thing done or

15. tion 1 of this Act.

An Act to establish the Public Accounts Implementation Tribunal among other

things to recover from public officers, contractors or companies, government

funds or property found by the Public Accounts Committee to have been mis-

appropriated or to be due to the government of the Federation.

[1990 No. 34.]

[10 th October, 1990]

[Commencement.]

Establishment of the Public Accounts Implementation Tribunal

There is hereby established a body to be known as the Public Accounts Implementa-

tion Tribunal (in this Act referred to as “the Tribunal”).

Membership of the Tribunal

(1) The Tribunal shall consist of the following members, that is-
(a) a retired Judge of a superior court of record who shall be the Chairman;
(b) a representative of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Jus-

tice;

(c) a superior police officer not below the rank of a Commissioner to be nominated

by the Inspector-General of Police;

(d) a representative of the Auditor-General for the Federation; and
(e) a representati ve of the Accountant-General of the Federation.
(2) The Chairman and members of the Tribunal shall be appointed by the President.

Appointment of Secretary to the Tribunal

There shall be appointed by the President a Secretary to the Tribunal who shall be an

officer in the public service of the Federation.

officer in the public service of the Federation.

4. Powers of the Tribunal

The Tribunal shall have the following functions, that is--

(a) to examine the reports and recommendations of the Public Accounts Commit-

tee which shall be referred to the Tribunal, from time to time, by the President;

(b) to initiate any appropriate steps which in the opinion of the Tribunal shall en-

sure that the various Ministries and Extra-Ministerial Departments of the gov-

ernment of the Federation recover from any officer, contractor, corporate body

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