Commodity Boards Act, 1977 🇳🇬

Nigeria

Commodity Boards Act, 1977

Published in Official Gazette supplement 18 on 21 April 1977
Commenced on 1 April 1977
[This is the version of this document at 31 December 2002.]

An Act to dissolve the Nigerian Produce Marketing Company Limited and all the States Marketing Boards and in their place set up six new Commodity Boards to which certain staff and assets of the dissolved company and boards are to be transferred.

Part I – Establishment of Commodity Boards

1. Establishment, etc., of Commodity Boards

(1)There shall be established six bodies corporate (in this Act, referred to collectively as "Commodity Boards") to be known by the following names, that is to say-

(a)the Nigerian Cocoa Board;

(b)the Nigerian Groundnut Board;

(c)the Nigerian Cotton Board;

(d)the Nigerian Palm Produce Board;

(e)the Nigerian Rubber Board;

(f)the Nigerian Grains Board,

which shall deal with such commodities and shall have such powers and exercise such functions as are specified in this Act.

(2)The headquarters of each Co…

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