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Biosafety Law, Regulation, Guidelines and Agreements (LAW)
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BCH-LAW-NG-115102-2   |   PDF   |   Print   |  
published: 15 Aug 2019 last updated: 04 Sep 2019
Amendment
No
General Information
NATIONAL BIOSAFETY MANAGEMENT AGENCY(AMENDMENT) ACT, 2019.
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Legislative details
Law
National / Federal
Objective: This Act seeks to amend the National Biosafety Management Agency Act, 2015 in order to enlarge the scope of application of the Act, to ensure the regulation of gene drive, gene editing, synthetic biology and bio-security and related matters in Nigeria, with a view to preventing any adverse effect to human health and the environment, and for related matters.

Scope: The Act was amended by inserting new paragraphs(which includes  measures to ensure bio-security; the application of gene drive, gene editing and synthetic biology, and the definitions of Biosecurity, Gene drive, Gene editing and Synthetic biology).
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29 Jun 2019
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