DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES (PROHIBITION) ACT, 2018

Section 12: Reserved spaces.

2018Section 12 of 58Federal Republic of Nigeria

(1) At public parking lots, suitable spaces shall be properly marked and reserved for persons with disabilities.
(2) For a person with disability to be entitled to the use of the reserved space in subsection (1), his car shall have been properly identified with the necessary insignia.
(3) A person, organisation or corporate body in control of a public parking lot who fails to provide for the reserved spaces in subsection (1), commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of N1, 000 for each day of default.
(4) A person without disability who parks a vehicle in the reserved Space in subsection (1), commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of N5,000.
(5) person who intentionally obstructs the reserved space in subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of N5,000.
(6) Subsection (4) does not apply if a person with disability is a passenger in the vehicle.

Cite this section

Section 12, DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES (PROHIBITION) ACT, 2018 (2018).

https://repo.podus.ai/laws/discrimination-against-persons-with-disabilities-prohibition-act-2018/section/12/