Section 77, The Sierra Leone Local Content Agency Act, 2016

The Minister may by statutory instrument make regulationsfor carrying out the purposes of this Act particularly for– (a) establishing the minimum standards, facilities, personnel and technology for training in the sectors covered by the Act; (b) specifying modalities involving operators as partners in training and development; Misrepresentation. Regulations. Review of quantitative Targets. Transfer of assets etc. Transfer of Certain Employees. No. 3 The Sierra Leone Local Content Agency Act 2016 No. 3 The Sierra Leone Local Content Agency Act 201646 47 (c) setting out targets to ensure- (i) full utilisation and steady growth of indigenous companies engaged in exploration in the case of the mining and petroleum sectors and in other preliminary activities or operations in the other sectors covered by this Act; (ii) seismic data processing in the case of the mining and petroleum sector; (iii) engineering design; (iv) reservoir studies; (v) gps surveys in the case of agriculture; (vi) manufacturing and fabrication of equipment; and (vii) other facilities as well as provisions of other support services in Sierra Leone in the sectors covered by this Act. (d) setting targets on the number and type of such joint venture or alliances to be achieved for such project; (e) setting targets for the growth of research and development in sectors covered by this Act in Sierra Leone (f) require any operator or company or its professional employees engaged in the PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING DEPARTMENT, SIERRA LEONE. GAZETTE NO. 11 OF 3RD MARCH, 2016. provision of engineering or other pro-fessional services in the sectors covered by this Act to be registered with the relevant professional bodies in Sierra Leone; (g) requiring any operator to invest in or set up a facility, factory, production units or other operations in Sierra Leone for the purposes of carrying out any production, manufacturing or providing a service otherwise imported into Sierra Leone; and (h) regulating the Sierra Leonean Content Certification and the Sierra Leone local Content Scorecard. Passed in Parliament this 24th day of November 2015, in the year of our Lord two thousand and fifteen. IBRAHIM S. SESAY, Clerk of Parliament. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed Parliament and found by me to be a true and correct printed copy of the said Bill. IBRAHIM S. SESAY, Clerk of Parliament.