Section 52: Regulations relating to piers.

(1) The Authority may make regulations for all or any of the following purposes-
(a) controlling the erection, re-erection, alteration, extension and use of piers in any port or in the approaches to any port;
(b) requiring the owners or occupiers of such piers to maintain the same and the approaches thereto in a proper state of repair;
(c) prescribing the fees to be paid for any licences issued under section 48 of this Act;
(d) prescribing forms for such licences and applications therefor;
(e) for the proper lighting of such piers;
(f) requiring such life-saving apparatus as may be specified in the regulations to be kept on such piers;
(g) the period of validity of such licences; and
(h) generally for giving effect to the provisions and purposes of this Part.
(2) For the breach of any regulation made under this section, the Authority may prescribe as a penalty, a fine not exceeding one hundred naira, and in the case of a continuous breach, a further fine not exceeding ten naira a day for every day after the first during which such breach continues, and a term of imprisonment not exceeding three months, or both such fine and imprisonment.