LAGOS STATE SPECIAL PEOPLES’ LAW

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LIST OF LAWS OF LAGOS, [ALPHABETICAL]  

LAGOS STATE SPECIAL PEOPLES LAW, 2010

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1.       Establishment of the Office for Disability affairs.

2.       Composition of the Board.

3.       Functions of Office

4.       Tenure of Office and Remuneration of Members.

5.       Cessation of Office

6.       Proceedings and Quorum.

7.       Meetings

8.       Quorum

9.       Power to Co-opt

10.     Validity of Proceedings

11.     Disclosure of Interest.

12.     Appointment of General Manager.

13.     Secretary of the Board

14.     Structure of the Office.

15.     Power to Accept Gifts.

16.     Power to Borrow.

17.     Establishment of Disability Fund.

18.     Provisions of Trained Personnel.

19.     Public Functions.

20.     Bank Account and Audit.

21.     Report on Audited Account.

22.     Statistics and Collection.

23.     Provision of facilities in Public Transport.

24.     Assignment of Special Seats in vehicles, vessels, trains and aircraft.

25.     Reservations at Parking lots.

26.     Prohibition from Discrimination and Harmful Treatment.

27.     Prohibition from cruelty and inhuman Treatment.

28.     Provisions of Adequate Standard of Living and Social Protection.

29.     Provision of Facilities at Public Building.

30.     Situation of Risk and Humanitarian Emergencies.

31.     Rights of Children with disability.

32.     Right to Health.

33.     Right to Education.

34.     Right to Work and Employment.

35.     Right to Freedom of Communication.

36.     Right to drive.

37.     Right to Communal Life.

38.     Right to participation in cultural life, recreation, leisure and sport.

39.     Power to make Regulations.

40.     Interpretation.

41.     Citation and Commencement.

LAGOS STATE SPECIAL PEOPLES’ LAW, 2011

A LAWTO ESTABLISH THE OFFICE FOR DISABILITY AFFAIRS, TO SAFEGUARD PEOPLE LIVING WITH DISABILITY AGAINST ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AND EQUALISE THEIR OPPORTUNITIES IN ALL ASPECT OF LIVING IN THE SOCIETY AND FOR CONNECTED PURPOSES.

THE LAGOS STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY enacts as follows:

Establishment of Disability affairs.

1.(1) There is established under this Law an Office the Office for known as office for Disability affairs (referred to in this Law as the “Office”)

(2)     The Office shall-

(a)     be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal;

(b)     have power to sue and be sued in its corporate name; and

(c)     be capable of holding, purchasing, acquiring and disposing of movable or immovable property for the purpose of carrying out its functions under this Law.

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