ANTI-TORTURE ACT, 2017

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ANTI-TORTURE ACT 2017

LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA

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EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

This Act makes comprehensive provisions for penalising the acts of torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment, and prescribes penalties for the commission of such acts.

ANTI-TORTURE ACT

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1.       Duty of Government

2.       Acts of torture

3.       No justification for torture

4.       Right to complain

5.       Assistance in filing complaint

6.       Right to examination

7.       Liability

8.       Penalties

9.       Regulatory Agency

10.     Education campaign

11.     Rules and regulations

12.     Repeal

13.     Citation

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ANTI-TORTURE ACT, 2017

An Act to penalise the acts of torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and prescribe penalties for such acts and for related matters.

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[Commencement] [20th Day of December, 2017].

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ENACTED by the National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria-

Duty of Government.

1.       The Government shall-

(a)     Ensure that the rights of all persons, including suspects, detainees and prisoners are respected at all or times and that no person placed under investigation or held in custody of any person in authority shall be subjected to physical harm, force, violence threat or intimidation or any act that impairs his free will; and

(b)     Fully adhere to the principles and standards on the absolute condemnation and prohibition of torture set by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and various international instruments to which Nigeria is a State party.

Act no 23, 1999.

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