Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Fifth Alteration) Acts, 2023
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Official source(e) the promotion and establishment of a national grid system;
and
(f) the regulation of the right of any person or authority to
use, work or operate any plant, apparatus, equipment or work
designed for the supply or use of electrical energy.
14. A House of Assembly may make laws for the State with respect
to –
(a) electricity and the establishment in that State of electric
power stations;
(b) the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity to
[Second Schedule,
areas not covered by a national grid system within that State;
Part II, Item 14(b)
is altered by the and
Constitution of the
Federal Republic (c) the establishment within that State of any authority for
of Nigeria, 1999
the promotion and management of electric power stations
(Fifth Alteration)
(No. 17) Act, 2023] established by the State.
15. In the foregoing provisions of this item, unless the context
otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings
respectively assigned to them -
“distribution” means the supply of electricity
from a sub-station to the ultimate consumer;
“management” includes maintenance, repairs or replacement;
“power station” means an assembly of plant or equipment for the
creation or generation of electrical energy; and
“transmission” means the supply of electricity from a power
station to a sub-station or from one sub-station to another sub-
station, and the reference to a “sub-station” herein is a reference
to an assembly of plant, machinery or equipment for distribution of
electricity.
G- Exhibition of cinematograph films
16. The National Assembly may make laws for the establishment of
an authority with power to carry out censorship of cinematograph
films and to prohibit or restrict the exhibition of such films; and
nothing herein shall -
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