Policies / Policies from 2010

Policies from 2010

Policies with publication year 2010.

Employee's Compensation Act, 2010 Explanatory Memorandum

Ministry of Labour

Nigeria2010LabourOther

This Act repeals the Workmen's Compensation Act Cap. W6 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 and makes comprehensive provisions for payment of compensation to employees who suffer from occupational diseases or sustain injuries arising from an accident at the workplace or in the course of employment.

Cross River State Forestry Commission Law 2010 (No. 3 of 2010).

Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Rural development

Nigeria2010Agriculture And Rural DevelopmentOther

This is a law to make provisions for the establishment of the State Forestry Commission; and to provide sustainable management of the forest and wildlife resources, preservation and protection of the ecosystem in Cross River State and other matters connected therewith. This law establishes the Cross River State Forest Commission as a body corporate, defines its functions and powers, and provides for its administration and operations. The law also provides for: the classification, administration and licensing of forests; the protection of plant or animal species and their habitats, watersheds and fisheries; conservation, management and regeneration of forests; protected forest areas; concession agreements; establishment of community-based forest management associations; management of community forests and control of and assistance to private forests; a forest sector strategy; preservation, conservation and protection of wild animals, birds and fish; a timber marks system; establishment of the wildlife conservation advisory committee, the Forestry Reserve Fund and a Forest Trust Fund; enforcement and legal proceedings; offences and penalties.

Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission (Establishment, Etc.,) Act, 2010

Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources

Nigeria2010EnergyOther

This is an act to establish the Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission charged with the responsibility for managing the ecological menace' to the operation of dams, and for related matters. The Commission established shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal, and sue and be sued in its corporate name.

Merchant Shipping (Safe Manning, Hours of Work and Watchkeeping) Regulations

Ministry of Transportation

Nigeria2010TransportationOther

These regulations apply to Nigerian ships only. It provides for the responsibilities of companies, masters and others; safe manning documents, hours of work, the general duty of company employers and masters, duties of a master and seafarer, schedules of duties and need to record; exception for emergencies, watchkeeping arrangements, watchkeeping arrangements in port, watchkeeping arrangements in port for ship carrying hazardous cargo, documents carried on board, an inspection of non-Nigerian ships, power to detain and penalties.

Merchant Shipping (Crew Accommodation) Regulations 2010

Ministry of Transportation

Nigeria2010TransportationOther

These regulations apply to all Nigeria sea-going ships except fishing boats and pleasure yachts. Regulation 3 provides that every person to order a ship to which these regulations apply constructed shall create, during construction, a plan of the ship on a scale not smaller than 1 in 100, to be submitted to a surveyor of ships on a day not later than the day on which the keel of the ship is laid, showing clearly the proposed arrangement of the crew accommodation in the ship and its proposed position concerning other spaces therein.

Merchant Shipping (Tonnage) Regulations 2010

Ministry of Transportation

Nigeria2010TransportationOther

Where necessary, the measure of the tonnage of a ship in Nigeria shall be ascertained under these regulations. Its application for registration of a ship in Nigeria shall be made by the owner to the Minister in a form prescribed by the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency.

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