DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES (PROHIBITION) ACT, 2019

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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 PROGAMMES

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

DISCIMINATION AGAINST PERSONS WITH DISABILITES (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                                          [17^TH JANUARY, 2019]

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

ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO THE LAWS OF NIGERIA (UPDATED)

LAWS MADE BY THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF NIGERIA [1999 – Date]

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