Health Legislation

The Act amended the National Identity Cards Act, 2011.

The Act regulates the promotion, regulation and integration of health insurance schemes in Nigeria.

The law establishes the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria and regulates the standard of training and practice of pharmacy.

This Act establishes a National Health Insurance Authority to implement a national health insurance scheme, establishes a national health insurance Fund to pay for the cost of health care services to members of the Scheme, and provides for the establishment of private health insurance schemes.

The document has the regulation taken by Lesotho’s government during the emergency of COVID 19.

The Regulation sets up rules in the registration of drugs and related products manufactured, imported, exported, advertised, sold, distributed or used in Nigeria.  

These Regulations establish the rules for the internet-based pharmaceutical service provides in Nigeria.

The document contains regulation taken by Lesotho’s government during the emergency of COVID 19.

The document establishes the national list of essential medicines in Nigeria.

This document establishes the national list of essential medicines for children in Nigeria.

The document is a comprehensive Regulation on data protection in Nigeria. It is a guide to assist data controllers and data administrators/processors in understanding the controls and measures they need to introduce into their operations in order to comply with the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation.

The document provides the guideline treatment and the standard of care for the Nigerian Population. Taking also into consideration different approaches from the health sector.

The Act regulates the quality and safety of medicines and related products and connected matters.

This Act promotes and protects the health and safety of the general public through safeguarding, maintaining and enforcing the highest standards in the practice of pharmacy.

The Act makes provision regarding the Insurance sector, with the aim of consolidation, administration, supervision, regulation, control, protection and development of insurance business, and for incidental matters.

This Act provides a framework for the regulation, development and management of a national health system and sets standards for rendering health services in Nigeria, as well as related matters.

This act has the aim to consolidate and reform the laws relating to the protection and welfare of children and to provide for incidental matters. The Act covers aspects such as the rights of a child and the responsibilities of its parents; the child in need of care and protection; the offences to health and welfare of children; the conditions to take a child into care and for adoption; trafficking of children; child rehabilitation and conflict with criminal law; police powers and duties regarding children and legislation regarding minor’s criminal law.

The Act mandates the establishment of a National Identity Register, the issuance of national identity cards to persons whose are included in the national identity register and for related matters.

The Act establishes the Data Protection Commission, provide for principles for regulation of processing of personal information in order to protect and reconcile the fundamental and competing values of personal information privacy under this Act and sector-specific legislation and other related matters.

The Act implement the legal provisions of the National Policy for the advancement of Gambian Women and Girls, and incorporates and enforces the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa.