Powers Of The President Under The Quarantine Act.

#ObscureLegalFacts by Arome Abu

POWERS OF THE PRESIDENT UNDER THE QUARANTINE ACT.

In Nigeria, under the Quarantine Act of 1926, the President of Nigeria is empowered to:

(1) Declare a disease one of infectious or contagious nature.

(2) Powers to declare a place within or outside Nigeria, an infected area.

(3) Powers to make regulations preventing the spread of any dangerous infectious disease.

(4) The President or Governor of a State may provide Sanitary Stations, buildings or other equipement for preventing the introduction or spread of a new disease in Nigeria.

-where the President fails to declare a disease an infectious one, or fails to declare a place in Nigeria an infected area, the Governor of a State may make such declaration with respect to his State (S.8)

-Provisions of the Quarantine Act may be enforced before the Magistrates Court.(S.7)

PENALTY FOR CONTRAVENTION OF REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT

-N200 or
-Six (6) months imprisonment or both.

See QUARANTINE ACT 1926

On march 26th 2020, former President of the Nigerian Bar Association Olisa Agbakogba SAN urged Nigeria lawmakers to as a matter of urgency pass a Coronavirus Act 2020, stating that the UK passed the Coronavirus Act of 2020 in just 2 days of its outbreak.

Arome Abu is the Principal Partner of TCLP.

CAVEAT: Note that this information is provided for general enlightenment purposes and is not intended to be any form of legal advice.

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