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Purpose and legislative effect
“This provision says the law creates the National Commission of Science and Technology (NCST) and sets out its mission, organization, and functioning.”
This provision says the law creates the National Commission of Science and Technology (NCST) and sets out its mission, organization, and functioning. This article says the law applies to science and technology understood as knowledge or processes gained through learning, training, creation, or knowledge transfer for innovation in priority employment areas in the national development plan. NCST has legal personality and administrative and financial autonomy. NCST’s head office must be in Kigali, and it may move elsewhere in Rwanda if necessary. NCST may also set up branches elsewhere in the country with approval by a Prime Minister’s Order. NCST must carry out a set of science-and-technology mission duties, including advising the Government, supporting training, promoting innovation, maintaining skills data, cooperating with other institutions, and issuing an annual report.
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This provision says the law creates the National Commission of Science and Technology (NCST) and sets out its mission, organization, and functioning.
Section 1
NCST and the Office of the Prime Minister must conclude a performance contract that details NCST’s responsibilities, objectives, property management and audit arrangements, and how NCST functions.
Section 7
Members of the National Science and Technology Council may not do paid work within NCST or bid for NCST tenders.
Section 14
NCST staff are to be appointed and managed under the General Statute for Rwanda Public Service, and benefits for the Director General and staff are set under relevant legal provisions.
Section 20
This law starts on the date it is published in the Official Gazette of Rwanda.
Section 26
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Source and current-law status
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Source record from www.amategeko.gov.rw · Record updated 11 Sept 2013
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