President Muhammadu Buhari Signs Two Bills To Law
On Thursday 28th June, President Buhari signed two bills into law.
The Medical Residency Training Act 2018 and the Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission (Establishment, etc) Amendment Act 2018.
According to the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Ita Enang the Medical Residency Training Act, 2018, enacts and regulates the Medical Residency Training Program for the training of Medical Practitioners and Dental Surgeons.
The programme would be regulated and managed by the National Medical Post-graduate College of Nigeria.
He said that the programme was for persons with the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MB. BSc, MB. CH, B, BDS), or its equivalent, who had done the NYSC programme with discharge or exemption certificate.
On the Hydro Power Act, No. 7 of 2010 the presidential aide said the amended Act reduced the derivation payable to the commission from 30 per cent to 10 per cent.
“The amendment further fortifies the power of the minister to issue policy directives as well as re-enforced statutory powers of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to regulate the Electricity Industry under the principal Act.
“The amendment eliminates ambiguity in the law and role conflict of the responsible institutions as well as properly providing for the exercise of statutory powers of NERC which was established before now,’’ he added.
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