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DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES (PROHIBITION) ACT, 2018
EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
This Act provides for the full integration of persons with disabilities into the society and establishes the National Commission with the responsibilities for their education, health care, social, economic and civil rights.
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES (PROHIBITION) ACT, 2018
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
PART I – PROHIBITION OF DISCRIMINATION, AND AWARENESS PROGRAMMES
1. Prohibition of discrimination and penalty
2. Awareness programmes
PART II – ACCESSIBILITY OF PHYSICAL STRUCTURE
3. Right of access to public premises
4. Accessibility aids in public buildings
5. Accessibility to roads, side-walk and special facilities
6. Transitory Period
7. Building Plan
8. Complaint of inaccessibility
PART III – ROAD TRANSPORTATION
9. Goods, services and facilities
10. Accessibility of vehicles
11. Provision of facilities to persons with disabilities
12. Reserved spaces.
PART IV – SEAPORTS, RAILWAYS AND AIRPORT FACILITIES
13. Seaports and railways
14. Assistive service and airline
15. Special safety briefing of persons with disabilities
PART V – LIBERTY, RIGHTS TO EDUCATION, HEALTH AND FIRST CONSIDERATION IN QUEUES, ACCOMODATION AND IN EMERGENCY
16. Prohibition of use of persons with disabilities in soliciting for alms and penalty
17. Rights to free education
18. Inclusiveness of education
19. Subsidised education for special education personnel
20. Appropriate mode of education for persons with disabilities
21. Free healthcare
22. Certificate of disability
23. Unlawful procurement of certificate of disability
24. Provision of special communication at hospitals
25. Situation of risk and humanitarian emergencies
26. Service at queues
27. Accommodation
PART VI – OPPORTUNITY FOR EMPLOYMENT AND PARTICIPATION IN POLITICS AND PUBLIC LIFE
28. Equal right to work
29. Opportunity for employment
30. Participation in politics
PART VII – ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR PESONS WITH DISABILITIES
31. Establishment of National Commission for Persons with Disabilities
32. Establishment of membership of the Governing Council.
33. Proceeding of the Council
34. Tenure of office
35. Cessation of office
36. Allowances of members
37. Powers of the Council
38. Functions of the Commission
39. Powers of the Commission
PART VIII – APPOINTMENT AND DUTIES OF THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY AND OTHER STAFF
40. Appointment and duties of the Executive Secretary of the Commission
41. Staff of the Commission and their remuneration
42. Appointment and secondment from public service
43. The structure of the Commission
44. Pension and gratuity
45. Funds of the Commission
46. Power to accept gifts
47. Power to borrow
48. Annual estimate and expenditure
49. Audit
50. Annual report
51. Power to acquire land.
PART IX – MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
52. Service of documents
53. Payment of judgment debt
54. Indemnity of officers
55. Waives of proof of special damages
56. Regulations
PART X – INTERPRETATION
57. Interpretation
58. Citation
Schedules
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES (PROHIBITION) ACT, 2018
An Act to provide for the full integration of persons with disabilities into the society, establish the National Commission for People with Disabilities and vest in the Commission the responsibilities for their education, health care, social, economic and civil rights; and for related matters
Commencement [17TH JANUARY, 2019]
ENACTED by the National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria –
PART I – PROHIBITION OF DISCRIMINATION, AND AWARENESS PROGRAMMES
ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO THE LAWS OF NIGERIA (UPDATED)
LAWS MADE BY THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF NIGERIA [1999 – Date]
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