Arrangement of Sections
PART I : Administration of the Act
1. Administration of Act and delegation of powers.
2. Agency for Maritime Safety Administration.
3. Returns as to merchant shipping, etc., to the Minister.
PART II: Restriction on Trading in Nigeria 5. Certificate of licence required by all ships trading in Nigeria.
National Character of Ships
5. [Repealed by Coastal and Inland Shipping (Cabotage) Act]
7. National character of ships to be declared before clearance.
8. Penalty for unduly assuming Nigerian character.
9. Penalty for concealment of Nigerian or assumption of foreign character.
10. Penalty for acquiring ownership if unqualified.
11. Liabilities of ships not recognised as Nigerian ships.
12. Penalty for carrying improper colour.
Name of Ship
15. Minister to make rules regarding name of ship.
PART III: Registration and Licensing of Ships
Registries of Ships
18. Qualification for owning Nigerian ships
19. Obligation to register ships
Procedure for Registraton
20. Minister to make regulations.
21. Application for Registration.
22. Survey and measurement of ship.
24 .Declaration of ownership in registry.
25. Entry of particulars in register.
26. Entry of particulars in register.
27. Managing owner to be registered.
28. Cancellation of registration
29. Restriction on deregistration of ship.
Certificate of Registry
30. Issue and custody of certificate of registration
31 .Use of impoper certificate .
32. Power to grant new certificate.
33. Endorsement of change of master on certificate.
34. Endorsement of change of ownership on certificate of registry.
35. Endorsement of change of ownership on certificate registry.
36. Re- registration of abandoned ships
37. Provisional certificate for ship which in foreign country becomes Nigerian owned.
38. Temporary passes instead of certificate of registry.
39. (Absent in Official Gazzette)
40 Procedure for registration of alteration.
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