CROSS RIVER – COMMISSION FOR WOMEN LAW

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LAWS OF CROSS RIVER STATE

COMMISSION FOR WOMEN LAW

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

CHAPTER C9

PART I

Establishment, Incorporation and Objectives of Commission

SECTION

1. Establishment of Commission.
2. Incorporation of Commission.
3. Objectives of the Commission.

PART II

Establishment and Composition of the Board of the Commission

4. Establishment and composition of Board.
5. Tenure of office.

PART III

Special Functions of the Commission

6. Special functions of Commission.

PART IV

Appointment of Secretary and Other Staff of the State Commission

7. Appointment of Secretary.
8. Directors, Assistant Directors, etc.

PART V

Proceedings of the Board

9. Validity of proceedings.

PART VI

Funds and Accounts

10. The funds of the Commission.
11. Estimates.
12. Accounts and audit, annual report.

PART VII

Miscellaneous Provisions

13. Power to give directions.

SECTION

14. Regulations.
15. Interpretation.
16. Short title.

CHAPTER C9

COMMISSION FOR WOMEN LAW

(2nd September, 1991)

[Commencement.]

PART I

Establishment, Incorporation and Objectives of Commission

1. Establishment of Commission

(1)      There is hereby established for an advancement of women in the State, a commission to be known as the Commission for Women.

2. Incorporation of Commission

The Commission shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and with power to sue and be sued in its corporate name and to own, hold and dispose of property whether movable or immovable.

3. The objectives of the Commission shall be—

(a)      to promote the welfare of women in general;

(b)      to promote the full utilisation of women in the development of human resources and to bring about their acceptance as full participants in every phase of national development, with equal rights and corresponding obligations;

(c)      to promote responsible motherhood and maternal health for women;

(d)      to stimulate action to improve women’s civic, political, cultural, social and economic education and organisation;

(e)      to support the work of non-governmental organisations for women and to play a co-ordinating role between Government and such women organisations;

(f)      to encourage the formation of co-operative societies amongst women both in urban and rural areas and to stimulate in women creative entrepreneurship in the field of cottage industries and small scale industries;

(g)      to formulate and propagate moral values within family units generally and to establish programmes with institutions and organisations to inculcate moral education in women and children; and

(h)      to work towards total elimination of all social and cultural practices tending to discriminate against and dehumanise womanhood.