PETROLEUM TRAINING INSTITUTE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2017

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LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA

PETROLEUM TRAINING INSTITUTE (AMENDMENT) ACT 2017

LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

This Act amends the Petroleum Training Institute Act Cap. P16, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 to comply with the principle of fair hearing by introducing the requirement of hearing by a disciplinary panel as part of the procedure for removal from office or employment of the principal, vice principal or any other members of the academic or senior administrative staff of the Institute.

PETROLEUM TRAINING INSTITUTE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2017 

ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES 

1.       Amendment of Cap. P16, LFN, 2004.

2.       Amendment of section 7.

3.       Citation

PETROLEUM TRAINING INSTITUTE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2017 

An Act to amend the Petroleum Training Institute Act Cap. P16, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 to comply with the principle of fair hearing before removal of staff from office.

[Commencement]                              (20^th JUNE, 2017) 

ENACTED by the National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria – 

Amendment of Cap. P16, LFN, 2004 

1.       The Petroleum Training Institute Act Cap. P16, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 (in this Act referred to  as “the Principal Act”) is amended as set out in this Act. 

Amendment of section 7. 

2.       Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended by substituting for the subsection (2), a new subsection “(2)” – 

“(2)   If it appears to the Council that the principal, vice principal or any other member of the academic or senior administrative staff of the Institute should be removed from office or employment on the  grounds of misconduct or inability to perform the functions of his office, the Council shall, after giving the said staff an opportunity to appear before a disciplinary committee, make a recommendation to  that effect to the Minister and, if the Minister approves the recommendation, the Council shall remove  the person concerned from office or employment.” 

Citation, 

3.       This Act may be cited as the Petroleum Training Institute (Amendment) Act, 2017.