This is an Act to establish the Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority whose functions shall include the control and regulation of the use of radioactive substances, material, equipment, emitting and generating ionizing radiation. It establishes the Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority and its governing board and the National Institute of Radiation Protection and Research. It also provides for the control of ionizing radiation and the exploration, etc. of materials containing radioactive substances and the packing and transportation of radioactive material and radioactive waste. The Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority shall be charged with the responsibility for nuclear safety and radiological protection regulation in Nigeria. The act requires registration of premises where sources of ionizing radiation are kept. It also provides that no person shall produce or market any consumer product containing radioactive substances without licence issued by the Authority.

These regulations, made under section 89 of the Nigerian Urban and Regional Planning Act 1992, provide rules for the composition and proceedings of the Urban and Regional Planning Tribunal of The Federal Capital Territory of Abuja. Where the Secretary of the Tribunal is of the opinion that a prima facie case is shown against: (a) a developer; or (b) the control department; (c) any other person, he or she shall formulate the appropriate charge or charges and forward them to The Tribunal together with all the documents to be considered by The Tribunal. Appeal against the decisions of The Tribunal may be had with the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja.

This Act provides rules for the manufacture, importation, exportation, distribution and advertisement of food and drugs. It also grants power to the Minister to set up the Food and Drugs Advisory Council and to make regulations for carrying out the purposes and provisions of this Act. No person shall sell, import, manufacture or store any article of food which: (a) has in it or upon it any poisonous or harmful substance not being a food additive or contaminant of a type and within the level permitted by regulations made under this Act; (b) is unfit for human consumption; or (c) consists in whole or in part of any filthy, disgusting, rotten or diseased substance; (d) adulterated; (e) stored under unsanitary conditions. The Minister may, on the recommendation of the Food and Drugs Advisory Council, and subject to the provisions of this section, designate: (a) a food and drug analyst; or (b) a drug analyst; or (c) a food and drug inspection officer. The Act also specifies the power of inspecting officers on importation of food, etc.

This is an Act to promote the optimum planning, development and use of the Nigeria’s water resources and other matters connected therewith. It vests the right to use and control all surface and groundwater and all water in any watercourse affecting more than one state, together with the banks and beds thereof, in the Federal Government (sect. 1). The purposes for this vesting are listed as the promotion of planning, development and use of Nigeria’s water resources; coordination of activities likely to influence the quality, quantity, use, distribution and management of water; the application of appropriate standards and techniques for use, protection, etc.; and technical assistance and rehabilitation for water supplies (sect. 1). Notwithstanding the vesting of water resources in the Federal Government, persons may take water for a variety of uses, including domestic uses, the watering of livestock, fishing and navigation, and the irrigation of land over which they have rights of occupancy (sect. 2). Section 4 gives the Secretary power to control the use or taking of groundwater by various means, including defining the places from where and means by which it can be abstracted; fixing of limits on amounts used; prohibiting the taking or use of water from particular sources to protect health etc.

Interim guidelines and standards relate to six areas of environmental pollution control are issued by The Federal Environmental Protection Agency (FEPA). These guidelines and standards relate to six (6) areas of environmental pollution control: effluent limitations (ii) water quality for industrial water uses at point of in-take (iii) industrial emission limitations (iv) noise exposure limitations (v) management of solid and hazardous wastes (vi) pollution abatement in industries

This is an Act which regularises the issuance of regulations by state governments pursuant to the Land Use Act. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Land Use Act or any other enactment, all laws, and subsidiary legislation made at any time between the commencement of the Land Use Act and 30th September 1979 by a military administrator (or former military governor), The Executive Council, a commissioner or any other authority or any public officer of a state are deemed to have been validly made and will have effect as if they had been made under or pursuant to the Land Use act and will also continue to have effect according to their tenor and intendment as if they were regulations made under or pursuant to section 46 of that Act.

Regulation 3 and 4 provides the functions and powers of the Corporation. They include: to implement, manage and administer the Agricultural Insurance Scheme, established by section 6 of this decree, to subsidize the premiums chargeable on selected crops and livestock policies from the grants obtained from the federal and state governments and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, to encourage institutional lenders to lend more for agricultural production having regard to the added security for their loans provided by the corporation, to promote increased agricultural production generally in order to minimise or eliminate the need for adhoc assistance previously provided by governments during agricultural disasters, to carry on insurance business on normal commercial basis and without subsidies on premiums as insurers of buildings, machineries, equipment and other items which form part of the total investment on farms and to reinsure this aspect of its operations through well-established channels with reputable reinsurance companies, to operate other types of insurance business as may be permitted by the commissioner of insurance at competitive premiums and to do anything or to enter into any transaction which in the opinion of the board is calculated to facilitate the due performance of its functions under this decree.

The Federal High Court or the High Court of a state, as the case may be, shall have jurisdiction to try the offences created under the enactments specified in the schedule to this decree. Enactments include the Food and Drugs act and the National Agency for Food And Drugs Administration and Control Decree 1993. Accordingly, a tribunal established in any of the enactments specified in the schedule to this decree is hereby dissolved. A charge, claim or court process filed before a tribunal established under any of the enactments specified in the schedule to this decree shall be deemed to have been duly filed or served before the Federal High Court or High Court of a state, as the case may be and such charge, claim and court process shall be deemed amended as to title, venue and such other matter as may be appropriate to give effect to this subsection without further assurance than this decree.

This is an Act to provide for marine insurance and to prohibit gambling on loss by maritime perils. Regulation 3 defines marine insurance. A contract of marine insurance is a contract whereby the insurer undertakes to indemnify the assured, in manner and to the extent thereby agreed, against marine losses, that is to say, the losses incident to marine adventure. Regulation 4 concerns mixed sea and land risks. A contract of marine insurance may, by its express terms, or by usage of trade, is extended so as to protect the assured against losses on inland waters or on any land risk which may be incidental to any sea voyage. It also covers marine adventure and maritime perils, avoidance of wagering or gaming contracts etc.

An Act to establish the National Inland Waterways Authority with responsibility, among other things, to improve and develop inland waterways for navigation. The regulation 2 states the objectives of the authority to: improve and develop inland waterways for navigation, provide an alternative mode of transportation for the evacuation of economic and goods and persons and execute the objectives of the national transport policy as they concern inland waterways.

An Act to provide for the establishment of the Consumer Protection Council and for matters connected therewith. The functions of the Council are to provide speedy redress to consumers’ complaints through negotiation, mediation and conciliation, seek ways and means of removing or eliminating from the market hazardous products and causing offenders to replace such products with safer and more appropriate alternatives, publish, from time to time, the list of products the consumption and sale of which have been banned, withdrawn, severally restricted or not approved by the Federal Government or foreign governments, cause an offending company, firm, trade, association or individual to protect, compensate, and provide relief and safeguards to injured consumers or communities from adverse effects of technologies that are inherently harmful, injurious, violent or highly hazardous, and organise and undertake campaigns and other forms of activities as will lead to increased public consumer awareness.

This Act defines the Admiralty Jurisdiction of the Federal High Court, gives an interpretation of ”maritime claim” and makes provision with respect to certain procedures and powers of enforcement of the court. Jurisdiction shall include any claim for liability incurred for oil pollution damage and any matter arising from shipping and navigation on any inland waters declared as “nation waterways”

This is an Act to provide for the dissolution of both the Antiquities Commission and the Federal Department of Antiquities and to create a National Commission for Museums and Monuments there from and other matters ancillary thereto. This act establishes the National Commission for Museums And Monuments and regulates its functions, powers, internal organization and external relationships. The Commission shall establish and maintain a fund which shall be used for promotion of the objectives specified in this act. The Commission shall administer national museums, antiquities and monuments. For the purposes of the discharge of its functions, the commission shall have power to acquire and dispose of any interests in land or other property.

This is an Act to vest all land comprised in the territory of each state (except land vested in the Federal Government or its agencies) solely in the Governor of the state, who would hold such land in trust for the people and would henceforth be responsible for allocation of land in all urban areas to individuals resident in the state and to organizations for residential, agricultural, commercial and other purposes while similar powers with respect to non-urban areas are conferred on local governments.

An Act to establish a training organisation known as the Agricultural and Rural Management Training Institute to provide, among other things, detailed identification of management training needs in agricultural and rural development organisations throughout Nigeria, and to develop and implement training programmes to meet the needs of managers in the agricultural and rural development sector of the economy. This act establishes the Agricultural and Rural Management Training Institute as a body corporate defines its functions and provides with respect to its administration and operation. The Institute shall provide detailed identification of management training needs in agricultural organizations and of technical employees in the rural sector of the economy and develop training programmes to meet these needs.

This is an Act to create offences related to unauthorized entry and carrying on of illegal transactions within any of the ports and to extend jurisdiction of the chief magistrate courts to the trial of the offences created by the act.

An Act to dissolve The Nigerian Produce Marketing Company Limited and all the states marketing boards and, in their place, set up six new commodity boards to which certain staff and assets of the dissolved company and boards are to be transferred. It establishes six corporate bodies: the Nigerian Cocoa Board, the Nigerian Groundnut Board, the Nigerian Cotton Board, the Nigerian Palm Produce Board, the Nigerian Rubber Board and the Nigerian Grains Board.

This is an Act to provide for the establishment of community banks and for matters connected therewith. It provides for the establishment of the National Board for Community Banks, etc. It also states the functions of the Board, it includes responsibility for accepting and processing applications for the setting up of banks throughout Nigeria, incorporating banks as private companies with membership of fifty or more persons and determining the amount of fees to be paid from time to time, undertaking such other activities as are necessary or expedient for giving full effect to the provisions of this act etc.

This is an Act to establish the Directorate of Food, Roads and Rural Infrastructures for the Mobilisation Of Rural Communities and the development of the rural areas in Nigeria; and to charge the directorate with diverse functions directed towards the improvement of the quality of the life in the rural areas.

This is an Act that establishes The Estate Surveyors and Valuers Registration Board of Nigeria as a body corporate and to empower the board inter alia to determine persons who are to become estate surveyors and valuers and what standards of knowledge and skill are to be attained by such persons and to make provisions for other matters connected therewith. It establishes The Estate Surveyors and Valuers Registration Board of Nigeria and also states the functions of the board. The Board will be responsible for determining who are estate surveyors and valuers for the purpose of this Act, determining what standards of knowledge and skill are to be attained by persons seeking to become registered as estate surveyors and valuers and reviewing such standards, from time to time, for the purpose of raising them, securing, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, the establishment and maintenance of a register of persons entitled to practise as estate surveyors and valuers and the publication, from time to time, of the lists of such persons, regulating and controlling the practice of estate surveying and valuation (in this Act referred to as “the profession”) in all its aspects and ramifications etc.