Section 68: Loading and unloading of coasting ships

(1)
Except with the permission of the Board and subject to such conditions as to the keeping of a record of unloading and loading of goods and to such other conditions as it sees fit to impose, no person shall unload goods from any coasting ship or load any goods into a coasting ship -
(a)
outside such hours as the Board may, by notice in the Federal Gazette, from time to time appoint;
(b) except at an approved wharf;
(c) without the authority of the proper officer; or
(d)
on a Sunday or a public holiday.
(2)
Within 24 hours after the arrival of any coasting ship at the place of unloading and before any goods are unloaded, the master shall, by himself or his agent, deliver to the proper officer the transire in respect of the goods to be unloaded.