Section 399: Exclusions

(1)
The provisions of this part of this Act shall not apply to-
(a)
salvage operation which takes place in inland waters of Nigeria and in which all the vessels involved are of inland navigation; and
(b)
a salvage operation which takes place in inland waters of Nigeria and in which no vessel is involved;
(c)
fixed or floating platforms or to mobile offshore drilling units when the platforms or units are on location engaged in the exploration, exploitation or production of sea bed mineral resources.
(2)
Inland waters in this section does not include any water in ebb and flow of the tide at ordinary tide or waters which is directly or (by means of one or more docks) indirectly connected with such waters.
(3)
Nothing in this part of this Act shall be used as a basis for the seizure, arrest or detention by any legal process of or for any proceedings in rem against a warship, other non commercial vessel or non commercial cargo owned by the Federal Government and entitled at the time of salvage operation to sovereign immunity.
(4)
Nothing in this part of this Act shall be used as a basis for the seizure, arrest or detention of humanitarian cargoes if the country that donated the humanitarian cargoes has agreed to pay for salvage services rendered in respect of the hurnanitarian cargoes.