Upper chamber of the National Assembly, the Senate on Tuesday reconsidered seven bills, including the Digital Rights and Freedom (Est, etc) Bill, 2018 and the Climate Change (Est, etc) Bill, 2018, it has previously passed into law.
TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports the Senate and the House of Representatives had passed into law the Digital Rights and Freedom, and Climate Change bills.
Others bills passed by the NASS to be reconsidered as well are the Nigerian Aeronautical Search and Rescue Bill, 2018; Nigerian Film Corporation (repeal & Re-enactment) Bill, 2018; Chartered Institute of Pension Practitioner of Nigeria (Est, etc) Bill, 2018; Chartered Institute of Training and Development of Nigeria (Est, etc) Bill, 2018, and National Institute of Credit Administration (Est, etc) Bill, 2018.
The bills were passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives and were transmitted to the Clerk National Assembly for onward transmission to the President C-in-C for assent.
After critical examination of the bills, the directorate of legal services of the National Assembly observed some fundamental issues, which required fresh legislative action.
Clause 2 (1)(2) of the Nigerian Aeronautical Search and Rescue Bill, 2018 (FIB. 139); Clause 2 (1)(4), 3(1))f), 5(2), 7(1)(a) (2)(a), 8, 9,17(1) of the Climate Change (Est, etc) Bill, 2018, and Clause 11 of the Chartered Institute of Pension Practitioner of Nigeria (Est, etc) Bill, 2018, were found to have fundamental issues.
Also Clause 18 (2) & (6) of the Chartered Institute of Training and Development of Nigeria (Est, etc) Bill, 2018; Clause 7 (3)(5) and 8 (1)(3) of the National Institute of Credit Administration (Est, etc) Bill, 2018; Clause 4 (1)(2)(3) of the Digital Rights and Freedom (Est, etc) Bill, 2018 (HB. 490), and Clause 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19 of the Nigerian Film Corporation (repeal & Re-enactment) Bill, 2018 were found to have fundamental issues.
A technical committee of the Senate, House of Representatives and Directorate of Legal Services met and worked on the clauses, and relying on order 1(b) and 53(6) of Senate Standing Order, the upper legislative chamber accordingly resolved to rescind its decision on the affected Clauses of the Bills as passed and re-commit same to the Committee of the Whole for re-consideration and passage.