Section 99: Certificate as to agreement with crew of sea-going ship

(1)
In the case of a sea-going Nigerian ship, on the due execution of an agreement with the crew in accordance with this part of this Act, and where the agreement is a running agreement, in compliance by the master, before the second and every subsequent voyage made after the first commencement of the agreement with the provisions of this part respecting that agreement, the superintendent shall grant the master of the ship a certificate to that effect.
(2)
The master of every sea-going Nigerian ship shall, before proceeding to sea, produce to the superintendent the certificate granted him under subsection (1) of this Section and any such ship may be detained until the conditions precedent to the grant of the certificate exist.
(3)
The master of every sea-going Nigerian ship shall, within forty-eight hours after the ship's arrival at the ship's final port of destination in Nigeria or upon the discharge of the crew, whichever first happens, deliver his agreement with the crew to the superintendent and the superintendent shall give the master a certificate of the delivery.
(4)
A master of a ship who fails, without reasonable cause to deliver the agreement with the crew to the superintendent commits an offence and on conviction is liable to a fine not less than fifty thousand Naira.