Oil In Navigable Waters Act

OIL IN NAVIGABLE WATERS ACT

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

SECTION

1. Discharge of certain oils into prohibited sea areas.

2. Designation of prohibited sea areas.

3. Discharge of oil into the waters of Nigeria.

4. Special defences under sections 1 and 3.

5. Equipment in ships to prevent oil pollution.

6. Penalties for offences under sections I, 3 and 5.

7. Keeping record of matters relating to oil.

8. Facilities in harbours for disposal of oil residues,

9. Restriction on transfer of oil at night.

10. Duty to report discharges of oil into waters of harbours.

11. Powers of inspection.

12. Prosecutions.

13. Enforcement and application of fines.

14. General provisions as to application of Act.

15. Power to grant exemptions.

16. Application of Act to Government owned ships.

17. Enforcement of Convention relating to oil pollution.

18. Annual report.

19. Financial provisions.

20. Interpretation.

21. Short title.

SCHEDULE

Prohibited sea areas

[NoTE.- The measurements used in this Act are English measurements; and they are

to be converted into the metric measurements as and when required.]

An Act to implement the terms of the International Convention for the Preventionof Pollution of the Sea by Oil 1954 to 1962 and to make provisions for such prevention in the navigable waters of Nigeria.

[1968 No. 34.]

[ Commencement.]

[22nd April, 1968]

1. Discharge of certain oils into prohibited sea areas

and shall also apply to any other description of oil which may be prescribed under this subsection by order made by the Minister, having regard to the provisions of any subse- quent Convention in so far as it relates to the prevention of pollution of the sea by oil, or having regard to the persistent character of oil of that description and the likelihood that it would cause pollution if discharged from a ship into a prohibited sea area.