WAGES BOARDS AND INDUSTRIAL COUNCILS ACT

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LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA

WAGES BOARDS AND INDUSTRIAL COUNCILS ACT

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Industrial wages boards

1. Establishment of industrial wages boards.
2. Exercise of powers in the States.
3. References to commission of inquiry.
4. Procedure of commission of inquiry.
5. Making of industrial wages board order.
6. Abolition of industrial wages board.
7. General provisions as to commissions of inquiry.
8. Wages.
9. Conditions of employment other than wages.
10. Provisions as to orders fixing wages and other conditions.
11. Saving as to rights under other laws.
12. Employers’ obligations in respect of orders fixing statutory minimum wages or other conditions.
13. Permit of exemption for workers affected by infirmity or physical injury.
14. Duties of industrial wages board in relation to references by the Minister.
15. Employer to keep records.

National Wages Board and Area Minimum Wages Committees

16. National Wages Board and Area Minimum Wages Committees.
17. Minimum wage recommendations.

Joint Industrial Councils

18. Establishment of joint Industrial Councils.
19. Extension of agreements.
20. Exemption of marginal employers.

Miscellaneous and supplemental

21. Officers and their powers.
22. Offences by agent, etc.
23. Offences and penalties.
24. General provisions for certain bodies established in pursuance of this Act.
25. Regulations.
26. Repeal, and transitional and saving provisions.
27. Interpretation.
28. Short title.

SCHEDULES

First Schedule – Composition, etc., or certain bodies established pursuant to Section 24

Second Schedule – Transitional and Saving Provisions

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WAGES BOARDS AND INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL ACT

An Act to provide for the establishment of a National Wages Board and Area Minimum Wages Committee for States and for Joint Industrial Councils for particular industries.

[1973 No. 1. L.N. 55 of 1974.]

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[Commencement.] [1st October, 1974]

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