Section 14: Reference of dispute to National Industrial Court if tribunal's award is objected to.

(1) If notice of objection to the award of an arbitration tribunal appointed under section 8 of this Act is given to the Minister within the time and in the manner specified in the notice under section 12(2) of this Act, the Minister shall forthwith refer the dispute to the National Industrial- Court established by this Act.
(2) The award of the National Industrial Court shall be binding on the employers and workers to whom it relates-
(a) as from the date of the award or such date as may be specified in the order; or
(b) where, subject to subsection (3) of section 21, there is an appeal on the question of fundamental rights as contained in Chapter IV of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as from the date of the determination of the appeal.
(3) In so far as the terms and conditions of employment to be observed by an employer in accordance with any award made by the National Industrial Court under this section are more favourable than any statutory provisions affecting the terms and conditions of employment of the workers concerned, the award shall prevail.
In this subsection, "statutory provisions" means provisions contained in any written law in force in Nigeria or any part thereof, or in any instrument made in the exercise of any power conferred by any such law.
(4) Any person who fails to comply with an award of a tribunal as confirmed by the Minister pursuant to this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction-
(a) in the case of an individual to a fine of N200 or imprisonment for six months; and
(b) in the case of a body corporate to a fine of N2,000
(5) Any person who after conviction in respect of an offence under subsection (4) of this section continues to fail to comply with an award as mentioned therein shall be guilty of a further offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of N200 or N 2,000, as the case may be, for each day on which the offence continues.
(6) Where an offence under this section by a body corporate is found to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or attributable to any act or default on the part of any person in apparent control of the body corporate, the person or persons in apparent control and the body corporate shall be deemed to have committed the offence.