Section 1: Establishment of the Teaching Hospital and Management Board

(1) There is hereby established a teaching hospital by the name of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital for the purpose of providing such facilities for the training of medical and other students as are usually provided by teaching hospitals of internationally high repute.
(2) There shall be established for the management of the hospital a body to be known as the University of Benin Teaching Hospital Management Board (in this Act referred to as "the Board") which shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal.