Section 501: Offences in relation to ships

(1) If any of the following offences is committed on any ship‐
(a) if any person being drunk or disorderly has been on that account refused admission
thereto by any duly authorised member of the crew and nevertheless persists in
attempting to enter the ship;
(b) if any person being drunk or disorderly on board the ship is requested by any duly
authorised member of the crew to leave the ship at any place at which he can
conveniently do so, and does not comply with the request;
(c) if any person on board the ship, after warning by any duly authorised member of
the crew molests or continues to molest any passenger;
(d) if any person shall obstruct, impede or molest the crew or any member of them in
the navigation or management of the ship;
(e) if any person, after having been refused admission to the ship by any duly
authorised member of the crew on account of the ship being full, persists in
attempting to enter the ship;
(f) if any person having gone on board the ship at any place and being requested, on
account of the ship being full, by any duly authorised member of the crew to leave the
ship, before it has quitted that place, does not comply with that request;
(g) if any person travels or attempts to travel in the ship without first paying his fare
and with intent to avoid payment thereof;
(h) if any person having paid his fare for a certain distance, knowingly and wilfully
proceeds in the ship beyond that distance without first paying the additional fare for
the additional distance, with intent to avoid payment thereof;
(i) if any person on arriving in a ship at the point to which he has paid his fare
knowingly and wilfully refuses or neglects to quit the ship;
(f) if any person on board the ship fails when requested by any duly authorised
member of the crew either to pay his fare or exhibit such ticket or other receipt, if any,
showing the payment of his fare, as is usually given to persons travelling by and
paying their fare on the ship;
(k) if any person travels or attempts to travel in that part of a ship which is set apart
for passengers of a superior class to that for which he holds a ticket;
(l) if any person travels or attempts to travel in any ship or part of a ship which is not
set apart for public passengers and on being ordered by any duly authorised member
of the crew to leave such place refuses so to do,
the person so offending shall for such offence be liable to a fine of ten naira but that
liability shall not prejudice the recovery of any fare payable by him.
(2) Any member of the crew in charge of any ship, and all persons called by him to his
assistance, may, without warrant, arrest any person who commits any offence against
this section of this Code and whose name and address are unknown to him.
(3) Any person who commits an offence against this section of this Code and on the
application of the officer or quartermaster in charge of the ship, refuses to give his
name and address, or gives a false name or address, is liable to a fine of forty naira.