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SOUTH-EAST DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION ACT

LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA

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EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

This Act establishes the South-East Development Commission charged with the responsibility among other things to receive and manage funds from allocation of the Federation Account for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of roads, houses and other infrastructural damages suffered by the region as a result of the effect of the Civil War as well as tackle the ecological problems and other related environmental or developmental challenges in the South-East states.

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART 1 – ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SOUTH-EAST DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION AND THE GOVERNING BOARD

1.     Establishment of the South-East Development Commission

2.     Establishment of the Governing Board

3.     Head Office

4.     Tenure of office

5.     Rotation of office of Chairman

6.     Resignation, cessation or removal from membership of the Board

7.     Allowances of members

PART II – FUNCTIONS AND POWERS OF THE COMMISSION

8.     Functions and powers of the Commission

9.     Powers of the Board

PART III – STRUCTURE OF THE COMMISSION

10.    Structure of the Commission

11.    Management Committee

12.    Establishment of the South-East Development Advisory Committee

PART IV – STAFF OF THE COMMISSION

13.    Managing Director and other staff of the Commission

14.    Pension

PART V – FINANCIAL PROVISIONS

15.    Fund of the Commission

16.    Expenditure of the Commission

17.    Gifts to the Commission

18.    Power to borrow

19.    Annual estimates and expenditure

20.    Quarterly report

21.    Annual report

PART VI – MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

22.    Monitoring Committee

23.    Offices and premises of the Commission

24.    Directives of the President

25.    Public Officers Protection Act

26.    Service of notice, summons and other documents

27.    Restriction on execution of judgment debts

28.    Indemnity of officers

29.    Regulations

30.    Interpretation

31.    Citation

Schedule

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SOUTH-EAST DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION (ESTABLISHMENT) ACT) 2025

An Act to establish the South-East Development Commission charged with the responsibility among other things to receive and manage funds from allocation of the Federation Account for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of roads, houses and other infrastructural damages suffered by the region as a result of the effect of the Civil War as well as tackle the ecological problems and other related environmental or developmental challenges in the South-East states.

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[Commencement]                       [23rd Day of July, 2024]

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ENACTED by the National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

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PART 1 – ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SOUTH-EAST DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION AND THE GOVERNING BOARD

1.     Establishment of the South-East Development Commission

(1)    There is established the South-East Development Commission (in this Act referred to as “the Commission”).

(2)    The Commission shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and may sue or be sued in its corporate name.

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