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 SECTION 
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 SECTION 
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 (a) 
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 deduction from the wages to be paid by the employer to the worker, or for any payment 
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 Contracts of employment 
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 section in respect of the second period of employment, so however that this subsection 
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 (5) Nothing in this section affects any right of either party to a contract to treat the 
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 working conditions in general) by allowing one or more suitably spaced rest-intervals of 
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 16. Sick leave 
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 18. Annual holidays with pay 
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 General 
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 PART II 
 Recruiting 
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 (3) Where the work is to be performed outside Nigeria, the Minister may require the 
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 (4) Every applicant for a licence under this section shall, if so required by the Minis-
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 Provided that the Minister may in writing authorise the recruitment of young per-
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 (5) The Minister shall ensure that all necessary measures are taken for the acclimati-
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 circumstances may require, adequate and suitable supplies of food, drinking water, fuel, 
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 (2) An authorised labour officer shall, before issuing a certificate under subsec-
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 Recruiting for employment outside Nigeria 
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 (b) 
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 exceeding two wives and such of his children under the age of sixteen years as he wishes 
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 47. Other offences 
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 PART Ill 
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 (h) 
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 then, until her absence has exceeded such a period (if any) as may be prescribed, no em-
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 ground work in any mine. 
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 (2) Subjection (1) ofthis section shall not apply to-
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 (2) Young persons over the age of sixteen years may be employed during the night in 
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 (3) No young person shall be employed in any vessel other than a vessel in which 
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 64. Offences 
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 (ii) 
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 registration in such manner, at such place and within such times as may be 
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 (d) 
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 shall be guilty of an offence aud on conviction shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 
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 (b) 
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 details of any manufacturing, commercial or working process which may come to his 
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 land or workplace whatsoever, so however that no person shall be forced to 
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 (4) The delegation of a function under subsection (I) of this section shall not prevent 
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 85. Costs 
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 other authority authorised by the law of the place where the contract was made to exer-
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 90. Repeal, and transitional and saving provisions 
 (1) The Labour Code Act is hereby repealed. 
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 "domestic servant" means any house, stable or garden servant employed in or in 
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 or catering worker or apprentice and any person or class of persons gainfully employed or 
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 payable by virtue of a contract by an employer to a worker for work done or to be done or 
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 (3) If the person conducting such examination shall consider that the apprentice is 
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 24. Notwithstanding the provisions of regulation 22 of these Regulations, any employer 
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 (4) Whenever a carrier shall have been left in a village as aforesaid the employer or 
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 FORM A-continued 
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 DOCK LABOUR (REGISTRATION AND CONTROL OF EMPLOYMENT)