Section 53: Power of the Authority to make regulations for pilotage districts

Subject to the provisions of this Part of this Act, the Authority may, with the approval of the Minister, make regulations for any pilotage district for all or any of the following purposes--(a) exempting any class of ship from compulsory pilotage;
(b) prescribing the occasions on which a ship being moved within a port which forms part of a pilotage district in which pilotage is compulsory, shall not be deemed to be navigating in the port;
(c) providing that, in respect of any class of ship prescribed in the regulations, only Authority pilots shall undertake pilotage;
(d) determining the qualifications to be required of licensed pilots, and for the grant of licences to pilots;
(e) providing generally for the good government of Authority pilots and licensed pilots;
(f) providing for the punishment for the breach of any regulation made by the Authority for the good government of pilots by the infliction of fines not exceeding N5,000
(g) prescribing the fees which shall be payable on the grant or renewal of a licence;
(h)
providing for bonds (the penalty of which shall not in any case exceed N10,000) to be given by pilots for the purpose of the provisions of section 55 of this Act limiting a pilot's liability; and
(i) generally regulating pilotage in a pilotage district.