Section 27: Managing owner to be registered

(1)
The Registrar shall cause the name and address of the managing owner for the time being of every ship registered in Nigeria to be registered in the register at the ship's port of registry.
(2)
Where there is no managing owner of a ship, the name ofthe ship's agent or other person to whom the management of the ship is entrusted by or on behalf of the owner shall be registered and any person whose name is so registered shall, for the purposes of this Act, be under the same obligations, and subject to the same liabilities, as the managing owner.
(3)
The owner of a ship who makes a default in complying with the provisions of this section, commits an offence and on conviction is liable to a fine not less than one hundred thousand Naira and to an additional fine not less than fifty thousand Naira for each occasion on which the ship leaves any port in Nigeria while that default continues.