NIGERIA CHRISTIAN PILGRIM COMMISSION ACT

Section 18: Regulations.

2007Section 18 of 21Federal Republic of Nigeria

(1) The Commission may make regulation generally for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this Act including-
(a) provisions on matters relating to recruitment, deployment, posting, training secondment, discipline and the general welfare of staff;
(b) specifying offences and types of misconduct, whether committed in Nigeria or elsewhere, that would disqualify a person from undertaking any pilgrimage organised or supervised by the Commission;
(c)
providing for Forms for use under this Act and for the particulars to be included in applications to the Commission for licences (including notification of any change) by Agencies and evidence if required to be produced in support;
(d) providing for the fees to be paid to the Commission in respect of the issue or renewal of licences;
(e) prescribing in respect of every pilgrims travel agency registered under this Act-
(i) a suitable standard of performance which the agency is obliged to maintain in connection with the provision of services to pilgrims;
(ii) the form and nature of compensation to which any person is entitled who is affected by the failure of an Agency in meeting the prescribed standard of performance;
(iii) a procedure by which complaints against an Agency may be dealt with effectively, justly and expeditiously; and
(iv) providing for any other matter or thing failing to be prescribed by the Commission in respect of Agencies.
(2) Any regulation prescribing compensation under subsection (1) (e) (ii) of this section shall apply without prejudice to any other remedy that may be available in respect of the act or omission which constitutes the failure described in that subsection.
(3) Regulations may also provide for the exclusion or removal as the case may be from the register of names of Agencies which fail to pay licence fees, or renewal of licence fees.
(4)
Regulations when made shall be published in the Federal Gazette and in such other manner as the Commission may direct.

Cite this section

Section 18, NIGERIA CHRISTIAN PILGRIM COMMISSION ACT (2007).

https://repo.podus.ai/laws/nigeria-christian-pilgrim-commission-act/section/18/