Section 309: Alteration or defacement of Load Line marks

(1)
The owner or master of a Nigerian load line ship who fails without reasonable cause to keep the ship marked in accordance with this part of this Act commits an offence and on conviction is liable to a fine not less than five hundred thousand Naira.
(2)
Any person who conceals, removes, alters, defaces or obliterates or permits any person under his control to conceal, remove, alter, deface or obliterate any mark placed on the ship in accordance with this part of this Act, except with the authority of a person entitled under the Load Line Regulations to authorise the alteration of the mark commits an offence and on conviction is liable to a fine of not less than five hundred thousand Naira.