BAYELSA STATE LOCAL GOVERNMENT (AMENDMENT NO.6) LAW, 2011

GOVERNMENT OF BAYELSA STATE OF NIGERIA

BAYELSA STATE LOCAL GOVERNMENT (AMENDMENT NO.5)

LAW, 2012

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

SECTIONS

1. Amendment of the Local Government Law, 2000.
2. Repeal of Amendment No. 1 Law, 2001
3. Repeal of Section 1 of the Amendment No. 4 Law, 2003
4. Amendment of Section 48 of the Principal Law by inserting a new subsection (a)
5. Amendment of Section 48 by inserting a new subsection 5
6. Amendment of Section 102 of the principal law
7. Short title and commencement

 

 

GOVERNMENT OF BAYELSA STATE OF NIGERIA

BAYELSA STATE LOCAL GOVERNMENT (AMENDMENT NO.5) LAW, 2011

A LAW to provide for the further amendment of the Bayelsa State Local Government Law, 2000 and other matters connected therewith.

Commencement          (                                                                       )

BE IT ENACTED by the House of Assembly of Bayelsa State of Nigeria and by the Authority of same as follows:

Amendment of Bayelsa State Local Government Law, 2000	1.	The Bayelsa State Local Government Law, 2000 (hereinafter called the Principal Law) is hereby amended as set out in the following provisions.
Repeal of Amendment No.1 Law, 2001	2.	The Bayelsa State Local Government Amendment No. 1 Law, 2001 is hereby repealed.
Repeal of Section 1 of the Amendment No. 4. Law, 2003	3.	Section 1 of the Amendment (No.4) Law,  2003 is hereby repealed.
Amendment of section 48(4) of the principal law by inserting a new subsection (a).       Director of Administration and General Services	4.	Section 48 subsection 4 of part vi of the Principal Law is hereby amended by deleting the words “the Secretary; and” in subsection 4(a) and substitute in its place a new subsection 4(a) as set out below-     (a)  “The Director of Administration and General Services; and”
Amendment of Section 48 by inserting a new subsection 5	5.	Section 48 of the Principal Law is amended by inserting a new subsection 5 as set out below –
Head of Local Government Administration to sign payment schedules (Article 2:1 Page 1 of the approved scheme of service for Local Government Employees in Nigeria. (2006)		48(5) The Head of Local Government Administration as accounting officers to local Government as stipulated in the approved scheme of service for Local Government employees in Nigeria shall be co-signatory to all payment schedules.
Amendment of Section 102 of the Principal Law, 2000	6.	Section 102 of the Bayelsa State Local Government Law, 2000 is hereby amended by inserting a proviso thereto as follows:               ‘PROVIDED however that this Law shall not apply to the Local Government Area (Creation and Transitional provisions) Law,   1999, until the National Assembly effects the required             amendments to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of             Nigeria, 1999’
Short Title and Commencement	5.	This Law may be cited as the Local Government (Amendment No. 5) Law and shall come into force on the ……………… day of……………. 2012.

 

 

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Bayelsa State House of Assembly and found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill.

 

 

…………………………………………….

Mr. AARON NICODEMUS TIMIYE

Clerk of the House

 

 

Assented the …………………………. day of …………………. 2012

 

 

 

…………………………………………………….

HON. HENRY SERIAKE DICKSON

Governor of Bayelsa State

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