OIL PIPELINES ACT

Section 12: Power to impose restrictions on use of adjoining lands.

1956Section 12 of 34Federal Republic of Nigeria

(1) It shall be lawful for the President upon application by the holder of a licence at the time of the grant of such licence or at any time thereafter, to make an order ancillary to such licence prohibiting or restricting the construction of any building or type of building, or the carrying on of any cultivation or industrial or mining or oil mining activity or any specified type of cultivation or industrial or mining or oil mining activity within a specified distance, not exceeding one hundred feet, from the boundaries of the land or of any part of the land in respect of which such licence is granted.
(2)
An order made in accordance with the provisions of this section shall be deemed to be part of the licence to which it is ancillary and the provision of this Act shall apply accordingly, and in the event of an application for such an order being made after the grant of the licence to which it is ancillary, the provisions of sections 8, 9 and 10 of this Act shall apply as though the application were for a new licence.

Cite this section

Section 12, OIL PIPELINES ACT (1956).

https://repo.podus.ai/laws/oil-pipelines-act/section/12/