NIGERIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AGENCY (ESTABLISHMENT) ACT, 2006

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LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA

NIGERIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AGENCY (ESTABLISHMENT) ACT, 2006 

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EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

This Act establishes Nigerian Geological Survey Agency to promote, among other things, the research for, exploration and exploitation of specialized geo-scientific services to both public and private sectors and to transfer the Geological Survey Department of the Federal Ministry of Solid Minerals Development to the Nigerian Geological Survey Agency.

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART I- ESTABLISHMENT OF NIGERIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND THE GOVERNING BOARD

1. Establishment of Nigerian Geological Survey Agency.
2. Establishment of the Governing Board
3. Membership of the Board
4. Tenure of office etc.

5. Removal from office, etc.
6. Resignation of members from the Board
7. Emoluments, etc

PART II- FUNCTIONS AND POWER OF THE AGENCY

8. Functions of the Agency
9. Powers of the Agency
10. Exercise of powers of the Agency outside the country.
11. General restrictions as to power of the Agency.

PART III-STAFF OF THE AGENCY

12. Director-General of the Agency
13. Principal officers of the Agency
14. Appointment of Secretary
15. Other employees of the Agency.
16. Officers and Servants of Previous body.
17. Offer of employment to such officers and servants
18. Pensions rights unaffected
19. Choice of a seconded staff
20. Transfer of Record of Service
21. Application of Statutory Agency etc. (Special Provision) Act Cap. 417
22. Bye-Laws
23. Pension, Act No, 2004

PART IV – FINANCIAL PROVISIONS

24. Funds of the Agency
25. General Reserve fund.
26. Expenditure of the Agency.
27. Annual Estimates and Accounts.

28. Annual Reports.
29. Power to accept gifts.
30. Power to borrow.
31. Investment Cap. 449 LFN.

PART V – DISCOVERIES, INVENTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS BY EMPLOYEES OF THE AGENCY AND OTHER PERSONS.

32. Discoveries, inventions, and improvements by employees of the Agency and other persons.
33. Power to obtain information.

PART VI – PROVISIONS RELATING TO LAND

34. Power to acquire land CAP 202 LFN
35. Power to enter land to make survey, etc
36. Compensation for damages.

PART VII – LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

37. Cap 379 LFN.

PART VIII – OFFENCES AND PENALTIES

38. Refusal to give information and willfully or recklessly giving false information.
39. Offences as to interference with rights conferred
40. Offences as to injury to boundary marks etc.
41. Penalties as to offence on boundary mark.
42. Offence by body corporate
43. Trial of offences

PART IX – MISCELLANEOUS

44. Directives by the Minister.
45. Regulations.
46. Interpretations.
47. Short Title

SCHEDULE

NIGERIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AGENCY (ESTABLISHMENT) ACT, 2006

An Act to establish the Nigerian Geological Survey Agency; and for related matters.

ENACTED by the National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

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