MANDATE OF THE NLRC

The Commission Was Established In 1979 as the Primary and Independent Law Reform Agency for the Federation.

The primary objective of the Commission is to take and keep under review all Federal laws with a view to their systematic and progressive development and reform in consonance with the prevailing norms of the Nigerian society including, in particular, the codification of such laws, the elimination of anomalies, the repeal of obsolete, spent and unnecessary enactments, the reduction in number of
separate enactments, the reform of procedural laws in consonance with changes in the machinery of the administration of justice and generally, the simplification and modernization of the law.

To perform effectively, the Commission:

• receives and considers proposals for the reform of the law which may be made or referred to it by the Attorney-General of the Federation
• prepares on its own initiative and submit to the National Council of Ministers, from time to time, programmes for the examination of different branches of the laws with a view to reform;
• undertakes, pursuant to any such recommendations approved by the National Council of Ministers, the examination of particular branches of the law and the formulation, by means of draft legislation or otherwise, or proposals for reform therein;
• prepare, from time to time at the request of the Attorney-General, comprehensive programmes of consolidation and statute law revision, and undertake the preparation of draft legislation pursuant to any such programme approved;
• may provide advice and information to Federal Government departments and other authorities or bodies concerned, at the instance of the Federal Government, with proposals for the reform or amendment of any branch of the law.