FEDERAL ROADS MAINTENANCE AGENCY (ESTABLISHMENT, ETC) ACT (AS AMENDED BY THE NIGERIA TAX ACT, 2025)

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LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA

FEDERAL ROADS MAINTENANCE AGENCY (ESTABLISHMENT, ETC) ACT 2002

(AS AMENDED BY THE NIGERIA TAX ACT, 2025)

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EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

An Act to establish the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency and for matters connected therewith.

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1.     Establishment of the Agency and location of its headquarters and operational offices.

2.     Establishment of Governing Board.

3.     Power of the Board.

4.     Tenure of Office, etc.

5.     Removal from Office etc.

6.     Emoluments, etc.

7.     Functions of the Agency.

8.     Powers of the Agency.

9.     Appointment and duties, etc. of the Managing Director.

10.    Appointment and duties of the Secretary.

11.    Other employees of the Agency.

12.    Appointment and secondment from public service.

13.    Pensions.

14.    Funds of the Agency.

15.    Application of the Agency’s fund.

16.    Annual estimates and accounts.

17.    Audit.

18.    Annual reports.

19.    Power to accept gifts, etc.

20.    Power to borrow.

21.   Investment.

22.   No exemption from payment of income tax.

23.   Power to acquire land.

24.   Limitation of suits against the Agency, etc.

25.   Service of documents.

26.   Indemnity of officers.

27.   Secrecy.

28.   Establishment of Road Camps.

29.   Savings and transitional provisions.

30.   Regulations.

31.   Interpretation.

32.  Citation.

SCHEDULE

Supplementary Provisions relating to the Board

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FEDERAL ROADS MAINTENANCE AGENCY (ESTABLISHMENT, ETC.) ACT (NO. 7), 2002

An Act to establish the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency and for matters connected therewith.

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  [Commencement.] [30th November, 2002]      

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

PART I: Establishment of the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency

1.     Establishment of the Agency and location of its headquarters and operational offices

(1)    There is established an agency to be known as the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (in this Act referred to as “the Agency”).

(2)    The Agency-

(a)    shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal; and

(b)    may sue and be sued in its corporate name.

(3)    The Agency headquarters shall be located in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

(4)    The Agency shall maintain Operational Offices in each State of the Federation, which shall establish road camps for proper monitoring and maintenance of all Federal roads.

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