Section 1: Establishment of Nursing and Midwifery Council, etc.

(1) There is hereby established a body to be known as the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (in this Act referred to as "the Council") which shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and may sue and be sued by the name aforesaid.
(2) The Council shall be charged with the general duty of-
(a) determining what standards of knowledge and skill are to be attained by persons seeking to become members of the profession of nursing and midwifery (in this Act referred to as "the profession") and reviewing those standards from time to time as circumstances may require;
(b) securing in accordance with the provisions of this Act the establishment and maintenance of a register of persons entitled to practise the profession and the publication from time to time of the lists of those persons;
(c) regulating and controlling the practice of the profession in all its ramifications;
(d) maintaining, in accordance with this Act, of discipline within the profession; and
(e) performing the other functions conferred upon the Council by this Act.
(3) Subject to subsection (4) of this section and to any direction of the Minister under this Act, the Council shall have power to do anything which in its opinion is calculated to facilitate the carrying on of its activities.
(4)
The Council shall not have power to borrow money or to dispose of any property except with the prior consent of the Minister and shall not have power to pay remunerations (including pensions), allowances or other expenses to any member or employee of the Council or to any other person except in accordance with scales approved after consultation with the Federal Civil Service Commission.