NIGERIAN URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING ACT
Section 6: Composition of the Commission
(1) The Commission shall comprise the following members-
(a) chairman;
(b) one representative of each of the following professions who shall be a registered member of the relevant profession, that is-
(i) Town planning;
(ii) Architecture;
(iii) Civil engineering;
(iv) Land surveying;
(v) Law; and
(vi) Estate surveying;
(c) one representative of each of the following, that is-
(i) the Federal Ministry of Works and Federal Ministry of Housing;
(ii) the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development;
(iii) the Federal Ministry of Finance;
(iv) the Federal Ministry of Commerce and Tourism;
(v) the Federal Ministry of Power and Steel;
(vi) the Federal Ministry of Environment;
(vii) the Federal Ministry of Transport and the Federal Ministry of Communications;
(viii) the National Electric Power Authority;
(ix) the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation; and
(x) the Nigerian Telecommunication Limited;
(d) one representative of the Nigerian Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture;
(e) ten representatives of the States of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja in rotation; and
(f) the executive director appointed by the Commission who shall be the chief executive of the Commission.
(2) The chairman referred to in subsection 6 (1) (a) of this section shall have been in professional practice for a minimum of fifteen years and shall have been registered with the Town Planners Registration Council.
(3) The executive director referred to in subsection 6 (1) (f) of this section shall be a registered town planner with a minimum of fifteen years of professional practice.
(4) The post of executive director shall be a pensionable one.
(5) The chairman, executive director and members of the Commission shall be paid such remuneration, fees and allowances as the Commission with the approval of the President, from time to time, determine.
Cite this section
Section 6, NIGERIAN URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING ACT (1992).
https://repo.podus.ai/laws/nigerian-urban-and-regional-planning-act/section/6/