LAGOS STATE CINEMATOGRAPH LAW

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LIST OF LAWS OF LAGOS, [ALPHABETICAL]  

CINEMATOGRAPH LAW

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1.       Establishment of Film and Video Censors’ Board

2.       Composition of the Board

3.       Functions of the Board

4.       Appointment of members of the Board

5.       Tenure of office

6.       Removal from office

7.       Remuneration of members

8.       Appointment and duties of Executive Secretary

9.       Meetings

10.     Proceedings

11.     Power to co-opt

12.     Quorum and voting

13.     Standing Committees

14.     Registration Committee

15.     Sponsorship Committee

16.     Monitoring and Enforcement Committee

17.     Appeal Committee

18.     Appointment of employees

19.     Right of employees

20.     Finance

21.     Annual estimates

22.     Audit of account

23.     Grant of licence

24.     Licence fees

25.     Supervision of exhibitions to ensure safety from fire

26.     Films and posters not to be exhibited unless approved

27.     Right of appeal

28.     Power of the Commissioner in respect of approval by the Appeal Committee

:29.   Power of Commissioner to make regulations

30.     Prohibition of exhibition of inflammable material

31.     Admission of certain to certain films

32.     Exhibition of censorship certificates

33.     Power of entry

34.     Illegal use of Premises

35.     Repeal of LLSC 12 2003

36.     Interpretation

37.     Citation and commencement

SCHEDULES

CINEMATOGRAPH LAW

A LAW TO PROYIDE FOR TIIE ESTABLISHMENT OF LAGOS STATE FILM AND VIDEO CENSORS BOARD, TO REGULATE AND CONTROL CINEMATOGRAPTH AND SIMILAR EXHIBITIONS AND FOR CONNECTED PURPOSES

[Commencement]                                                                     [18th August 2004]

THE LAGOS STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY enacts as follows:

1.      Establishment of Film and Video Censors’ Board

(1)     There is established the Lagos State Film and Video Censors’ Board (referred to in this Law as “The Board”).

(2)     The Board shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal.

(3)     The Board may sue or be sued in its corporate name and may purchase, acquire, hold, dispose of any movable or immovable property.

LAWS OF LAGOS STATE

LAWS OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA