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Supplement to Official Gazette

SCHOOL YEAR (VARIATION) DECREE 1972 Decree No. 29 [28th July 1972] THE FEDERAL MILITARY GOVERNMENT hereby decrees as follows: 1.-(1) It is hereby declared that all schools and colleges to which this Decree applies shall no longer begin their school year in January nor end it in November or December every year, as the case may be, but as from 1973 shall (a) begin the school year in the month of September of each year; and (b) end it in the month of June or July of the following year. (2) This Decree applies to any school or college, (a) not being a higher educational institution established und…