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.
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 -
(a)
preclude a House of Assembly from making provision for a similar
authority for that State; or
(b) authorise the exhibition of a cinematograph
film in a State without the sanction of the authority established
by the Law of that State for the censorship of such films.
17. The
National Assembly may make laws for the Federation or any part
thereof with respect to -
(a)
the health, safety and welfare of persons employed to work in
factories, offices or other premises or in inter-State transportation
and commerce including the training, supervision and qualification
of such persons;
(b) the regulation of ownership and control
of business enterprises throughout the Federation for the
purpose of promoting, encouraging or facilitating such ownership
and control by citizens of Nigeria;
(c) the establishment of research centres
for agricultural studies; and
(d) the establishment of institutions and
bodies for the promotion or financing of industrial, commercial
or agricultural projects.
18. Subject
to the provisions of this Constitution, a House of Assembly
may make Laws for that State with respect to industrial, commercial
or agricultural development of the State.
19. Nothing
in the foregoing paragraphs of this item shall be construed
as precluding a House of Assembly from making Laws with respect
to any of the matters referred to in the foregoing paragraphs.
20. For
the purposes of the foregoing paragraphs of this item, the word
"agricultural" includes fishery.
21. The
National Assembly may make laws to regulate or co-ordinate scientific
and technological research throughout the Federation.
22. Nothing
herein shall prelude a House of Assembly from establishing or
making provisions for an institution or other arrangement for
the purpose of scientific and technological research.
23. The
National Assembly may make laws for the Federation or any part
thereof with respect to statistics so far as the subject matter
relates to -
(a)
any matter upon which the National Assembly has power to make
laws; and
(b) the organisation of co-ordinated scheme
of statistics for the Federation or any part thereof on any
matter whether or not it has power to make laws with respect
thereto.
24. A House
of Assembly may make Laws for the State with respect to statistics
and on any matter other than that referred to in paragraph 23
(a) of this item.
25. The
National Assembly may make laws for the Federation or any part
thereof with respect to trigonometrical, cadastral and topographical
surveys.
26. A House
of Assembly may, subject to paragraph 25 hereof, make laws for
that State or any part thereof with respect to trigometrical,
cadastral and topohraphical surveys.
27. The
National Assembly shall have power to make laws for the Federation
or any part thereof with respect to university education, technological
education or such professional education as may from time to
time be designated by the National Assembly.
28. The
power conferred on the National Assembly under paragraph 27
of this item shall include power to establish an institution
for the purposes of university, post-primary, technological
or professional education.
29. Subject
as herein provided, a House of Assembly shall have power to
make laws for the state with respect to the establishment of
an institution for purposes of university, technological or
professional education.
30. Nothing
in the foregoing paragraphs of this item shall be construed
so as to limit the powers of a House of Assembly to make laws
for the State with respect to technical, vocational, post-primary,
primary or other forms of education, including the establishment
of institutions for the pursuit of such education.
Part III
Supplemental
and Interpretation
1. Where
by this Schedule the National Assembly is required to designate
any matter or thing or to make any declaration, it may do so
either by an Act of the National Assembly or by a resolution
passed by both Houses of the National Assembly.
2. In this
Schedule, references to incidental and supplementary matters
include, without prejudice to their generality, references to:
(a)
offences;
(b) the jurisdiction, powers, practice and
procedure of courts of law; and
