NATIONAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY ACT

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NATIONAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY ACT

LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA

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EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

An Act to provide for the establishment of the National Information Technology Development Agency; and for related matters.

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART I – Establishment of the Agency

1.     Establishment of the Agency.

PART II – Composition of the Governing Board, Powers and Functions

2.     Establishment and membership of the Governing Board.

3.     Tenure of Office.

4.     Cessation of membership.

5.     Emoluments, etc. of members.

6.     Functions of the Agency.

7.     Powers of the Board.

PART III – Staff and Structure of the Agency

8.     Director-General, Secretary and other staff of the Agency.

9.     Pensions Reform Act 2004 No.4.

10.    Staff regulations.

11.    Removal from Office of the Director-General, etc.

PART IV – Establishment of the National Information Technology Development Fund

12.    Establishment, etc., of the National Information Technology Development Fund.

13.    Exempted from tax.

14.    Investments.

15.    Accounts and report of the fund.

16.    Federal Inland Revenue Service to collect levy and pay into the Fund.

17.    Offences.

18.    Offences relating to body corporate.

PART V – Information Technology Parks 

19.    Information technology parks.

PART VI – Financial Provisions

20.    Accounts of the Agency.

21.    Expenditure of the Board.

22.    Annual estimates and accounts.

23.    Annual reports.

24.    Power to accept gifts.

25.    Power to borrow.

26.    Exemption from tax.

PART VII – Legal Proceedings

27.    Limitation of suits against the Agency.

28.    Service of documents.

29.    Restriction on execution against property of the Agency.

30.    Indemnity.

PART VIII – Miscellaneous

31.    Directives by the Minister, etc.

32.    Regulations by the Board.

33.    Transitional provisions.

34.    Interpretation.

35.    Short title.

SCHEDULES

FIRST SCHEDULE — Supplementary Provisions relating to the Board, etc.

SECOND SCHEDULE — Supplementary Provisions relating to the Supervision of the Management of the Country Code Top Level Domain (.ng) on the Internet

THIRD SCHEDULE

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NATIONAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY ACT

An Act to provide for the establishment of the National Information Technology Development Agency; and for related matters.

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[Commencement. ] [24th April, 2007]      

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

PART I – Establishment of the Agency

1.      Establishment of the Agency 

(1)    There is established a body to be known as the National Information Technology Development Agency (hereinafter in this Act referred to as “the Agency”).

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