Section 24: General provisions for certain bodies established in pursnance of this Act

(1)
Any person or persons appointed under section 20 (1) of this Act, as an industrial wages board, a commission of inquiry, the National Wages Board or an area minimum wages committee, is a relevant body for the purposes of this section.
(2)
No member of a relevant body, and no other person present at or concerned in any proceedings of a relevant body, shall disclose any information or the contents of any document which has been furnished to the body in question, except with the written consent of the body and of the person who furnished the information or document.
(3) Any person who contravenes subsection (2) of this section shall be guilty of an offence and on conviction shall be liable to a fine not exceeding N200 or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months, or to both.
(4) Adequate staff and accommodation for the exercise of a relevant body's functions shall be provided by-
(a) the Federal Ministry of Employment Labour and Productivity; or
(b) in the case of an area minimum wages board set up for a State, by the department of government of the State responsible for labour matters.
(5) The validity of any proceedings of a relevant body shall not be affected-
(a) by any vacancy in the membership of the body; or
(b) by any defect in the appointment of any member; or
(c) by reason of the fact that a person not entitled to do so took part in the proceedings.
(6) Subject to this Act and any regulations made thereunder, a relevant body may regulate its own proceedings.
(7) The First Schedule to this Act shall have effect in relation to the relevant bodies therein mentioned.
[First Schedule.]
(8) It shall be the responsibility of the Federal Government to provide the funds needed for payment under section 20 (5) of the First Schedule to this Act.