Section 287: Rules for preventing overloading and overcrowding

(1)
The Minister may make rules with respect to ships exempt from survey under this Act for:
(a)
preventing the overloading of ships and the overcrowding of ships with passengers;
(b)
securing the safety of passengers, and proper accommodation for passengers on ships; and
(c)
generally for regulating all other matters relating to the protection of life and property of passengers and others on ships.
(2)
Unless otherwise exempted, everyperson who commits a breach of any regulations made or deemed to have been made pursuant to this section, commits an offence and on conviction is liable to a fine not less than five hundred thousand Naira.