ADVERTISING PRACTITIONER’S (REGISTRATION, ETC.) ACT

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ADVERTISING PRACTITIONER’S (REGISTRATION, ETC.) ACT

CHAPTER A7 LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA, L.F.N. 2004

[EDITOR’S NOTE: This Act has been repealed by the Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria Act, 2022]

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART I – Establishment of the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria, etc.

1.       Establishment of the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria, etc.

2.       Membership of the Council.

3.       Power of the Council.

4.       Power to bestow honorary fellowship.

5.       Fund of the Council.

6.       Financial provisions.

7.       Directives of the Minister to the Council.

8.       Registrar and other stall’ of the Council.

PART II – Registration

9.       Preparation and maintenance of register.

10.     Publication of register and lists of correction.

11.     Division of register.

12.     Registration.

PART III – Training

13.     Approval of courses.

14.     Supervision of institution and examination leading to qualifications.

15.     Power of Council to consider matters relating to training, etc.

PART IV – Privileges of Registered Persons and Offences by Unregistered Persons

16.     Certificate invalid if given by unregistered person.

17.     Appointment not to be held by unregistered person.

18.     Prohibition of a person falsely professing to be a registered person.

19.     Recovery of fees.

20.     Offences.

21.     Burden of proof.

PART V – Discipline

22.     Establishment of the Disciplinary Committee and Investigating Panel.

23.     Establishment of Advertising Standards Panel.

24.     Proceedings of Disciplinary Committee.

25.     Penalties for unprofessional conduct.

26.     Restoration of registration.

27.     Striking off entries from register on grounds of fraud or error.

28.     Appeal to the Court of Appeal.

PART VI – Supplementary

29.     Regulations.

30.     Interpretation.

31.     Short title.

FIRST SCHEDULE – Qualification and Tenure of Office of Members

SECOND SCHEDULE – Supplementary Provisions relating to the Disciplinary Committee and the Investigating Panel

CITATION

An Act to establish a council for advertising practitioners and to make provisions for the control of the practice of the profession of advertising.

COMMENCEMENT: 27th December, 1988

PART I: Establishment of the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria, etc.

1.     There is hereby established for advertising practitioners a body to be known as the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (in this Act referred to as “the Council”) which shall be charged with the general duty of-

(a)    determining who are advertising practitioners;

(b)    determining what standards of knowledge and skill are to be attained by persons seeking to become registered as members of the advertising profession and reviewing those standards from time to time;

(c)    securing in accordance with the provisions of this Act, the establishment and maintenance of a register of persons entitled to practice as advertising practitioners and the publication, from time to time, of lists of those persons;

(d)    regulating and controlling the practice of advertising subject to the approval of the Minister of Health, where the advertisement relates to matters of foods, cosmetics, beverages and drugs;

(e)    conducting examinations in the profession and awarding certificates or diplomas to successful candidates as and when appropriate and for such purpose the Council shall prescribe fees to be paid in respect thereof;

(f)     performing the other functions conferred on the Council by this Act.

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