Section 37: Regulations relating to piers

(1) The Authority may, with the approval of the Minister, make regulations for all or any of the following purposes, that is--
(a) controlling the erection, re-erection, alteration, extension and use of piers in any port or in the approach to any port;
(b) requiring the owners or occupiers of piers to maintain the piers and the approaches to the piers in a proper state of repair;
(c) prescribing the fees to be paid for any licence issued under section 34 of this Act;
(d) Prescribing the forms for the licences and applications for those licences;
(e) for the proper lighting of piers;
(f) requiring such life-saving apparatus as may be specified in the regulations to be kept on piers;
(g) the period of validity of the licences; and
(h) generally for giving effect to the provisions and purposes of this Part of this Act.
(2) For the breach of any regulation made under this section, the Authority may prescribe, as a penalty, a fine not exceeding N5,OOO and, in the case of continuous breach, a further fine not exceeding N500 a day for every day after the first day during which the breach continues or a term of imprisonment not exceeding twelve months or both such fine and imprisonment.