Section 193: Facilities for making complaint

(1)
Where a Nigerian ship is within Nigeria and a seaman or cadet on board the ship states to the master of the ship his desire to make a complaint to the superintendent against the master or any of the crew, the master shall, as soon as the service of the ship permits-
(a)
if the ship is at a port in Nigeria; or
(b)
if the ship is not at any port in Nigeria, soon after her first arrival at any such port, allow the complainant to go ashore or send him ashore in proper custody, to enable the seaman or cadet to make his complaint.
(2)
A master of a ship who fails without reasonable cause to comply with this section, commits an offence and on conviction is liable to a fine not less than twenty thousand Naira.