Section 147: Master to give facilities

(1)
Where the balance of wages due to a seaman belonging to a Nigerian ship is more than two thousand Naira, and the seaman expresses to the master of the ship, while the ship is in Nigeria, his desire to have facilities afforded to him for remitting all or part of the balance to a prescribed bank, or to a near relative in whose favour an allotment note is made, the master shall give to the seaman all reasonable facilities for so doing (so far as regards so much of the balance as is in excess of two thousand Naira) but the master shall be under no obligation to give those facilities while the ship is in port if the sum will become payable before the ship leaves port, or otherwise than conditionally on the seaman going to sea in the ship.
(2)
A master of a ship who fails to comply with the provisions of subsection (1) of this section commits an offence and on conviction is liable to a fine not less than twenty five thousand Naira.