COMPULSORY FREE UNIVERSAL BASIC EDUCATION ACT, 2004

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COMPULSORY, FREE UNIVERSAL BASIC EDUCATION ACT, 2004

LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART I- COMPULSORY, FREE UNIVERSAL BASIC EDUCATION, ETC.

1.       Federal Government intervention for uniform and qualitative basic education.

2.       Right of a child to compulsory, free universal basic education, etc.

3.       Services in public primary and junior secondary schools are free of charge.

4.       Duty of a parent to ensure the education of his child.

5.       Sections 2 and 3 not applicable to a child resident outside Nigeria.

6.       Magistrate courts to have jurisdiction over certain offences.

PART II – ESTABLISHMENT AND MEMBERSHIP OF THE UNIVERSAL BASIC EDUCATION COMMISSION, ETC.

7.       Establishment and membership of the Universal Basic Education Commission, etc.

8.       Tenure of office.

9.       Functions of the Commission.

10.     Appointment of Executive Secretary and other staff of the Commission, etc.

PART III- FINANCING OF THE UNIVERSAL BASIC EDUCATION

11.     Financing of the Universal Basic Education.

PART IV – ESTABLISHMENT, ETC OF STATES BASIC EDUCATION BOARD AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EDUCATION AUTHORITY

12.     Establishment of State Universal Basic Education Board.

13.     Establishment etc, of Local Government Education Authority.

14.     Repeal of Cap. 271 LFN 1990 and transitional provisions.

15.     Interpretation.

16.     Citation.

Schedule.

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COMPULSORY, FREE UNIVERSAL BASIC EDUCATION ACT, 2004

An Act to promote the provision of free, compulsory and universal basic education for every child of primary and junior secondary school age through the agency of State governments and parents. 

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[COMMENCEMENT]                            –                  (26th Day of May, 2004)

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

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