Section 87: Power of Authority to sell if rates not paid or lien not discharged.

(1) If the rates payable to the Authority in respect of Power of aforesaid has been given,is not discharged, the Authority may, and in charges, shall, at the expiration of ninety days from the time when the goods were placed in their custody, or if the goods are of a perishable nature at such earlier period, not being less than 24 hours after the landing of the goods, as they think fit, sell by public auction the said goods or so much as is necessary to satisfy the duty, expenses, rates and other claims hereinafter directed to be paid out of the proceeds of such sale.
(2) Before making such sale ten days' notice of the same shall be given by publication thereof in the Federal Gazette, unless the goods are of so perishable a nature as, in the opinion of the Authority, to render their immediate sale necessary or advisable, in which event such notice shall be given as the urgency of the case admits.
(3) If the address of the owner of the goods or of his agent the documuments which has come into the hands of the authority or is otherwise known and such address is within Nigeria, notice shall also be given to the owner of the goods by letter delivered at such sent by post; but the title of a bona fide purchaser shall not be invalidated by reason of the omission to send the said notice, nor shall any such purchaser be bound to inquire whether such notice has been sent.