NATIONAL DIRECTORATE OF EMPLOYMENT ACT

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LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA 

NATIONAL DIRECTORATE OF EMPLOYMENT ACT

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1. Establishment of the National Directorate of Employment.
2. Objectives of the Directorate.
3. Establishment, membership and functions of the Board.
4. Establishment of National Advisory Council for the Directorate.
5. Establishment, membership and functions of the State Advisory Committees.

Director-General and other staff of the Directorate

6. Director-General of the Directorate.
7. Appointment of other staff of the Directorate.
8. Provision of office facilities, etc.

Financial provisions

9. Power to accept gifts.
10. Borrowing power.
11. Establishment of fund of the Directorate.
12. Power to invest funds.
13. Annual estimates, accounts and audit.
14. Annual reports.

Miscellaneous and supplementary provisions

15. Power of the Minister to give direction.
16. Special committee of the Directorate.
17. Transitional provisions.
18. Application of Pensions Act.
19. Interpretation.
20. Short Title.

Schedule – Proceedings of the Board

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NATIONAL DIRECTORATE OF EMPLOYMENT ACT

An Act to establish the National Directorate of Employment and to charge it with the responsibility of designing and implementing programmes to combat unemployment.

[1989 No. 24.]

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[Commencement.] [19th October, 1989]      

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1. Establishment of the National Directorate of Employment

There is hereby established a Directorate to be known as the National Directorate of Employment (in this Act referred to as “the Directorate”), which under that name 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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