Section 334: Offences in connection with passenger ships

(1)
Any person, on board or attempting to board a passenger ship in Nigeria who-
(a)
on account of being drunk and disorderly, is refused admission to a passenger ship or where he is already on board, is requested by the owner or any person in his employ to leave the ship, and after having the amount of the fare paid by him returned or tendered to him, nevertheless persists in attempting to enter the ship, or refusing to leave the ship;
(b)
after warning by the master or other officer of the ship, molests or continues to molest any passenger;
(c)
on account of the ship being full, is refused admission to a passenger ship or where he is already on board, is requested by the owner or any person in his employ to leave the ship, and after having the amount of the fare paid by him returned or tendered to him, nevertheless persists in attempting to enter the ship, or where he is already on board, refuses to leave the ship;
(d)
travels or attempts to travel in the ship without first paying his fare and with intent to avoid payment;
(e)
having paid his fare for a certain distance, knowingly and wilfully proceeds in the ship beyond that distance without first paying the additional fare for the additional distance, intending to avoid payment of the additional fare;
(f)
on arriving in a ship at a point to which he has paid his fare, knowingly refuses or neglects to leave the ship;
(g)
fails, when requested by the master or other officer thereof, either to pay his fare or exhibit such ticket or other receipts showing the payment of his fare as is usually given to persons traveling by and paying their fare for the ship; or
(h)
wilfully causes to be done anything in such a manner as to obstruct or injure any part of the machinery or tackle of the ship, or to obstruct, impede or molest the crew or any of them in the navigation or management of the ship or otherwise in the execution of their duty on or about the ship, commits an offence under this Act.
(2)
A person who commits an offence under this section on conviction is liable to a fine not less than one hundred thousand Naira and to imprisonment for not less than three months.