IMMIGRATION ACT (CAP MI1, 2004]

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IMMIGRATION ACT

CHAPTER I1, LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA, LFN, 2004

[EDITOR’S NOTE: THIS ACT HAS BEEN REPEALED BY IMMIGRATION ACT, 2015]

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Part I – Administration

1.       Persons liable to examination.  

2.       Examination of persons landing or embarking.      

3.       Passenger lists and medical examination, etc.

4.       Production of travel documents.        

5.       Appointment of immigration officers.

6.       Appointment of medical inspectors and others.

7.       Power of immigration officer to refuse entry, etc.  

8.       Entry for business purposes, etc.       

9.       Entry requirements and conditions.

10.     Residence permits.         

11.     Control of visitors and transit passengers.   

12.     Power to exempt from certain entry or departure requirements.

13.     Power to board ships, etc.        

14.     Recognition of airports and ports.      

15.     Arrivals elsewhere than at a recognised port.

16.     Control of immigrants by inland waters, etc.         

17.     Removal of immigrant where entry refused.

Part II – Deportation

18.     Prohibited immigrants.   

19.     Deportation orders in special cases.   

20.     Court deportation recommendations to be an order made on conviction.

21.     Deportation order on recommendation by court.   

22.     Removal of persons subject to deportation orders.          

23.     Detention, etc. of persons liable to deportation.

24.     Offences in connection with deportation orders.   

25.     Power to notify cases specially liable to deportation

Part III – Control of crews and stowaways

26.     Examination of crews.    

27.     Control of members of crew of ship, etc.      

28.     Stowaways.

29.     Discharge of crew in Nigeria.

Part IV – Miscellaneous and Supplemental

30.     Determination of nationality in special cases.        

31.     General provisions as to detained persons.  

32.     Power to abolish, etc, entry permits in certain cases.

33.     Power to prescribe entry conditions and fees.       

34.     Employment of immigrants.     

35.     Revocation or variation of permits.

36.     Power to prohibit departure.

37.     Application of Act to young persons and cases of dual nationality, etc.        

38.     Power to require young persons to obtain permit after entry.    

39.     Admission of insane persons.

40.     Liability of master of a ship, etc, for costs of deportation.         

41.     Evidence as to orders, etc.       

42.     Expenses.

43.     Court cases involving deportation to be accorded priority.        

44.     Power of court to recommend deportation.  

45.     Power to detain in lieu of deportation.

46.     Offences in connection with control of immigration.        

47.     Offences by immigrant employers and workers.    

48.     Penalties, proceedings, etc.

49.     Power to appoint receiver, etc, where owner deported     

50.     Special cases where entry may be refused.

51.     Regulations.

52.     Interpretation       

53.     Short title             

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IMMIGRATION ACT

An Act to consolidate and amend the law as to immigration; to control in Nigeria certain persons; and for matters connected therewith.

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[COMMENCEMENT]                                                         [1st day of August 1963]

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