Section 118: Penalty in respect of ship entering compulsory pilotage district without pilotage.

(1) If any ship shall enter, leave or change her berth in any pilotage district in which pilotage has been made compulsory under this Act, not being in charge of a pilot authorised to pilot such ship, the pilotage dues which would have been paid if an Authority pilot had been employed shall nevertheless be paid together with a penalty of N40.
(2) The said dues and penalty shall be payable by the persons declared by this Act to be liable to pay the pilotage dues, and shall be recoverable before a court of competent jurisdiction.