Section 122: Provision as to taking distressed seaman on ship, etc.

(1)
Where a distressed seaman, is for the purpose of his return to a proper return port, placed on board any ship, the appropriate officer of the country in which the ship is, shall endorse on the agreement with the crew, the name of the distressed seaman so placed on board together with any particulars directed to be endorsed on the agreement by the law of that country.
(2)
Where a distressed seaman is provided with a passage on a ship and is not signed on as a member of the crew of the ship, on the production of:
(a)
a certificate signed by the appropriate officer by whose arrangements a distressed seaman to whom any rules made or deemed to have been made pursuant to section 118 of this Act apply received on board any Nigerian ship, specifying the number and the names of the distressed seamen and the time when each of them was received on board; and
(b)
a declaration in writing made by the master of the ship, before the superintendent or appropriate officer stating the number of days during which each distressed seaman has received maintenance, that the master of the ship shall be paid, in respect of the maintenance and passage of each distressed seaman so conveyed, maintained and provided for by him and shall be paid such sum for each day or part of a day as is allowed by any rules made or deemed to have been made pursuant to section 118 of this Act.