Section 328: Tonnage of foreign ship

(1)
Where it appears to the Minister that a foreign country has promulgated rules on tonnage that are substantially the same as those under the tonnage regulations made under this part of this Act, the Minister may order that a
ship or that country, without being re-measured in Nigeria, be deemed to be or the tonnages denoted in its certificate of registry or other national certificates relating to tonnage in the same manner, to the same extent and for the same purposes as the tonnages denoted in the certificate of registry of a Nigerian ship is deemed to be the tonnages of that ship.
(2)
Any space shown by the certificate of registry or other certificates relating to tonnage or any foreign ship described in subsection (1) of this section as deducted from the tonnage on account of being occupied by seamen or cadets and appropriated to their use, shall be deemed to have been certified under this Act and to comply with those provisions of this Act that apply to such a space in the case of Nigerian ships, unless a surveyor inspects the ship and certifies to the Minister that the construction and the equipment or the ship in respect or that space do not meet the standard required of a Nigerian ship under this Act, in which case the ship shall be re-measured and assigned a tonnage in accordance with this Act.
(3)
Where it appears to the Minister that the tonnage of a foreign ship is measured by the rules materially different from the rules for measurement of tonnages under this Act, the Minister may order that any of the ships of that country be re-measured in accordance with this Act, for all or any of the purposes of this Act.