NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMMISISION ACT

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NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMMISSION ACT

CHAPTER N11 LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA, L.F.N. 2004

[NOTE: This Act has been amended by National Broadcasting Commission (Amendment) Act No. 55 of 1999]

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Establishment, etc., of the National Broadcasting Commission

1.     Establishment of the National Broadcasting Commission.

2.     Powers of the Commission.

3.     Composition of the Commission.

4.     Tenure of office, etc.

5.     Director-General and other staff of the Commission.

6.     Power of the Minister to give directives.

7.     Conditions of service.

8.     Service in the Commission to be pensionable.

9.     Power of the Commission to grant licences.

10.    Persons disqualified from the grant of a licence.

11.    Method of application for a licence.

12.    Terms and conditions for a licence.

13.    Power of the Commission with respect to licences.

14.    Fund of the Commission.

15.    Radio and television licence fees.

16.    Expenditure of the Commission.

17.    Power to accept gifts.

18.    Borrowing power.

19.    Annual estimates, accounts and audit.

20.    Annual reports.

21.    Liability to code of sanctions.

22.    Indemnity, etc., of Commission and staff.

23.    Regulations.

24.    Savings.

25.    Repeal of certain sections of certain enactments.

26.    Interpretation.

27.    Short title.

SCHEDULES

FIRST SCHEDULE — Supplementary provisions relating to the Commission

SECOND SCHEDULE — Form for application for a grant of licence

THIRD SCHEDULE — Terms of a licence

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NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMMISSION ACT

An Act to establish the National Broadcasting Commission and for matters connected therewith.

[1992 No. 38.]

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[Commencement.]                      [24th August, 1992]

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Establishment, etc., of the National Broadcasting Commission

1.     Establishment of the National Broadcasting Commission

There is hereby established a Commission to be known as the National Broadcasting Commission (in this Act referred to as “the Commission”) which shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and may sue and be sued in its corporate name.

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