Section 6: Power to appoint ports, their limits and approaches.

(1) The President may, by order-
(a) declare any place in Nigeria and any navigable channel leading into such place to be a port within the meaning of this Act;
(b) declare the limits of any port appointed in accordance with paragraph (a) of this subsection;
(c) declare any navigator channel leading into any port to be an approach to such port within the meaning of this Act.
(2) The places specified in the First Schedule to this Act shall be deemed to be ports, and the limits of any such port shall, until other provision is made in accordance with paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of this section, be the limits declared under the Ports Act and in force immediately before the commencement of this Part.