{"id":2814,"date":"2022-08-02T15:34:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T15:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/?p=2814"},"modified":"2022-08-02T16:48:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T16:48:17","slug":"plac-production-electoral-act-2022-including-inec-regulations-guidelines-for-the-conduct-of-election-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/plac-production-electoral-act-2022-including-inec-regulations-guidelines-for-the-conduct-of-election-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"PLAC Production: Electoral Act 2022 (Including INEC Regulations &#038; Guidelines for the Conduct of Election 2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This publication by Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC) compiles the provisions of the new Electoral Act, 2022 and the most recent INEC Regulations and Guidelines for the Conduct of Elections in Nigeria. The new Act which repealed the Electoral Act, 2010 was signed by the President on 25<sup>th<\/sup> February, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2022 Act notably mandates early funding for elections, increases timeframes for various activities in the election cycle and expands the powers of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to enhance the performance of its constitutional role as Nigeria\u2019s electoral management body. Another notable innovation of the Act is the promotion of greater inclusivity of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in the electoral process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PLAC hopes\nthat this publication will be a useful resource for election stakeholders and\nreaders in general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Electoral-Act-2022.pdf\">\u00a0Click here to download <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This publication by Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC) compiles the provisions of the new Electoral Act, 2022 and the most recent INEC Regulations and Guidelines for the Conduct of Elections in Nigeria. The new Act which repealed the Electoral Act, 2010 was signed by the President on 25th February, 2022. The 2022 Act notably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2832,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions\/2832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}