Section 41: Minister may establish pilotage districts

(1) The Minister may, by order in the Gazette, establish a pilotage district-
(a) in any port; or
(b) in the approach to any port; or
(c) in the territorial waters of Nigeria: or
(d) in the exclusive economic zone of Nigeria.
(2) An order made under subsection (1) of this section may-
(a) provide that, in any pilotage district or in any part of a pilotage district, pilotage shall be compulsory; and
(b) define the limits of any pilotage district, distinguishing, where pilotage is compulsory in a part of the district, the part of the district in which pilotage is compulsory.
(3) Until other provision is made by an order made under this section. any pilotage district defined by regulations or order in force immediately before the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to be a pilotage district for the purposes of this Act, and every area in which pilotage was made compulsory under the regulations or order, shall be deemed to have been defined as a compulsory pilotage area under this section.