Section 4: General duties of the Commission

(1) The Commission shall, in the course of a pilgrimage, render all reasonable assistance which pilgrims may require in matters touching or concerning-
(a) health, immigration, foreign exchange; and
(b) the importation into Nigeria thereafter of items for the time being exempted from payment of duty but not otherwise.
(2) It shall be the duty of the Commission--
(a) to seek and obtain advice on standards (religious or of health) and other matters appropriate to pilgrimages as the Commission considers necessary;
(b) to establish or set up, and maintain-
(i) a library of books and other relevant publications as well as cinematograph and other facilities of use to persons interested in or desirous of undertaking a pilgrimage, so however that the library shall be open to the public upon and subject to any condition as to the user which the Commission may think fit to impose;
(ii) a continuing campaign, educative as well as religious. in all the States of the Federation, and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, the educative function being as well relati ve to the functions of the Commission as to pilgrimages generally;
(iii) pilgrims camps in Nigeria at such place or places approved by the Minister;
(c) in respect of every pilgrimage, to appoint-
(i) such number of medical practitioners and medical staff as it thinks fit;
(ii) welfare officers to carry out in Nigeria and elsewhere as directed by the Commission the pilgrim welfare policy of the Commission in respect of the pilgrimage for which they are appointed;
(iii) a sufficient number from a list of persons known as Mutawwifs and Muzawwirs as guides during a pilgrimage.
(3) For the purposes of this section, the course of a pilgrimage shall be the period of time fixed by the Commission after taking such advice in any particular case as it thinks fit.