Nigeria - 1997 - Health

Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency ( No. 9 of 1997).

Ministry of Health, Nigeria

This is a law to establish the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency and for other matters incidental thereto or connected therewith (1997 No 9). The agency shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and shall have the power to sue and be sued in its corporate name and to acquire, hold and dispose of its movable and immovable property for the purpose of carrying out its functions under this Law. Some of the functions of the agency are to advise the State Government on all environmental management policies, give direction to the affairs of the agency on all environmental matters, carry out public enlightenment and educate the general public on sound methods of environmental sanitation and management and so on.

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Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency ( No. 9 of 1997). Current Version

January 2022

This is a law to establish the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency and for other matters incidental thereto or connected therewith (1997 No 9). The agency shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and shall have the power to sue and be sued in its corporate name and to acquire, hold and dispose of its movable and immovable property for the purpose of carrying out its functions under this Law. Some of the functions of the agency are to advise the State Government on all environmental management policies, give direction to the affairs of the agency on all environmental matters, carry out public enlightenment and educate the general public on sound methods of environmental sanitation and management and so on.

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