NAVIGABLE WATERWAYS (DECLARATION) ACT

Section 2: Right of way of navigable waterways.

1988Section 2 of 7Federal Republic of Nigeria

(1) The right of land usage for improvement of navigability and provision of infrastructure shall cover areas on both banks of the waterway which would be submerged in a flood of one hundred years return period.
(2) In case of waterway with steep banks where such floods have no overbank flow, the right of way shall include the area of land along the waterway measured one hundred metres perpendicular distance from the edge of the channel.

Cite this section

Section 2, NAVIGABLE WATERWAYS (DECLARATION) ACT (1988).

https://repo.podus.ai/laws/navigable-waterways-declaration-act/section/2/