Oil in Navigable Waters Regulations, 1968 🇳🇬

Nigeria

Oil in Navigable Waters Act, 1968

Oil in Navigable Waters Regulations, 1968

Published in Official Gazette supplement 77 on 21 November 1968
Commenced on 22 April 1968
[This is the version of this document at 31 December 2002.]

In exercise of the powers conferred upon mebysections 5 and 7 of the Oil in Navigable Waters Decree 1968 and of all other powers enabling me in that behalf, I, the Federal Commissioner for Transport, hereby make the following regulations :—

1. Citation, commencement and interpretation.

(1)These Regulations may be cited as the Oil in Navigable Waters Regulations 1968 and shall be deemed to have come into force on 22nd April 1968.

(2)In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, expressions used have the same meaning as in the Oil in Navigable Waters Act 1968.

2. Equipment in ships to prevent pollution by oil

(1)Every Nigerian ship (other than a tanker) of eighty tons gross tonnage or over which uses her bunker fuel tanks for the carriage of ballast water sha…

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