Section 30: Power to declare places, etc., as ports, their limits and approaches

(1) The Minister may by order-
(a) declare any place in Nigeria and any navigable channel leading into that place, to be a port within the meaning of this Act;
(b) specify the limits of any place declared. as a port in accordance with paragraph (a) of this subsection;
(c) declare any navigable channel leading into a port to be an approach to that port, within the meaning of this Act.
(2) The places specified in the Second Schedule to this Act, shall be deemed to be ports, and the limits of those ports shall, until other provision is made in accordance with paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of this section, be the limits declared and in force immediately before the commencement of this Act, including-
(Second Schedule)
(a) all ocean beaches within 100 metres of the high-water level;
(b)
the waterways, creeks and swamp-land below the highest astronomical tide level and all beacons, moles, piers, jetties, slipways, quays and other works, extending beyond the natural line of the high-water level.