NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS AND REGULATIONS ENFORCEMENT AGENCY (ESTABLISHMENT) ACT

Section 21: Ozone protection.

2007Section 21 of 38Federal Republic of Nigeria

(1) The Agency shall in collaboration with other relevant agencies undertake to study data and recognize developments in force in other countries, regarding the cumulative effects of all substances, practices, processes and activities which may affect the stratosphere.
(2) The Agency shall, in collaboration with other relevant agencies, embark on programmes for the control of any substance, practice, process or activity which may reasonably be anticipated to affect the stratosphere, especially ozone in the stratosphere, when such effects may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare.
(3) Where an offence under subsection (2) of this section is committed by a body corporate, it shall on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding N2,000,000 and an additional fine of N50,000 for every day the offence subsists.

Cite this section

Section 21, NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS AND REGULATIONS ENFORCEMENT AGENCY (ESTABLISHMENT) ACT (2007).

https://repo.podus.ai/laws/national-environmental-standards-and-regulations-enforcement-agency-establishment-act/section/21/