Section 92: Agreement with crew

(1)
The Minister may make regulations relating to the making of agreements between the master and crew of a Nigerian ship.
(2)
The master of every Nigerian ship, except a ship of less than 80 tons exclusively employed in trading within such limits as may be prescribed, shall enter into an agreement, in accordance with this part of this Act, with every seaman whom he carries to sea from any port in Nigeria.
(3)
The master in the case of a foreign ship, and the owner and master in the case of any other ship or a Nigerian ship, who carries any seaman to sea without entering into an agreement with the seamen in accordance with this part, commits an offence and on conviction is liable to a fine not less than one hundred thousand Naira.