Section 40: Power of the Authority to make bye-laws for control, etc" of wharves

(1) The Authority may make bye-laws for the control and management of the wharves and premises vested in or in the possession of the Authority and the maintenance of good order in the wharves and premises and, in particular may, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, make bye-laws for all or any of the following purposes-
(a) regulating. declaring and defining the wharves, docks, piers and places vested in or in the possession of the Authority on and from which goods shall be landed and shipped;
(b) regulating the manner in which and the conditions under which the loading and discharging of ships shall be carried out;
(c) regulating the use of any shed, warehouse and railway vested in or in the possession of the Authority;
(d) the exclusion and removal from the premises of the Authority of idle and disorderly or other undesirable persons and trespassers;
(e) regulating the conduct of persons employed on the wharves and premises vested in or in the possession of the Authority;
(f) regulating any ferry service maintained by the Authority;
(g) for the management of the lighthouses of the Authority; and
(h) setting up pollution control guidelines and monitoring oil spillage, dumping of waste and garbage by ships arriving at the ports, wharves and jetties.
(2)
For the breach of any regulation made under subsection (1) of this section, the Authority may prescribe, as a penalty, a fine not exceeding N5,000 and, where the breach is a continuous breach, a further fine not exceeding N500 for every day after the first day during which the breach continues or imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or both such fine and imprisonment.
(3) The Authority shall keep at its office in each port, a copy of the bye-laws made under this section which are for the time being in force and shall allow any person to inspect it,without the payment of a fee, at all reasonable times.