Section 6: Discharge of oil at an oil terminal.

(1) So much of section 3 of the Oil in Navigable Waters Act as relate to the discharge of oil or mixture containing oil into the territorial waters of Nigeria from any vessel or apparatus used for transferring oil to any vessel shall, subject to the following provisions of this section, apply in relation to the area within which any oil terminal is situated, if situated outside the limits of the territorial waters, as they apply in relation to the whole of the sea within the seaward limits of the territorial waters.
(2) If any oil or mixture containing oil is discharged into any part of the sea referred to in subsection (1) of this section-
(a) from a pipe-line or any apparatus used for the purposes of transferring oil from or to a vessel;
(b) from a vessel; or
(c) as a result of any operation for evacuating oil,
the owner of the pipe-line or the owner of the vessel or the person in charge of the operation, as the case may be, is guilty of an offence under section 3 of the Oil in Navigable Waters Act (as applied by this section).
(3) Any person found guilty of an offence as aforesaid shall on conviction be liable to the same penalty as provided by section 6 of the Oil in Navigable Waters Act, and the special defences prescribed under section 4 thereof shall apply in relation to such offences as they apply for the purposes of that Act.
(4) The operation of the foregoing provisions of this section is without prejudice to the operation of any other provision of the Oil in Navigable Waters Act in so far as it applies in relation to any area within which there is situated any oil terminal, and effect shall be given to the provisions of that Act, accordingly.
(5) In this section, "oil" has the meaning given in section 20 of the Oil in Navigable Waters Act.