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Ports (Related Offences, etc.) Act, 1996 🇳🇬


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Ports (Related Offences, etc.) Act, 1996

  • Commenced on 19 April 1996
  • [This is the version of this document at 31 December 2002.]
An Act to create offences related to unauthorised entry and carrying on of illegal transactions within any of the ports and to extend jurisdiction of the Chief Magistrate Courts to the trial of the offences created by the Act.

1. General prohibition

(1)Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any law or enactment, including the Customs and Excise Management Act, the Nigerian Ports Authority Act and the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria Act, it shall be unlawful for any person, not being a duly authorised officer or agent of any of the following, namely-[Cap. C45. Cap. N 126. Cap. F5.]
(a)the Nigerian Customs Service;
(b)the Nigerian Ports Authority;
(c)the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria;
(d)the Nigerian Immigration Service;
(e)the Port Police; and
(f)the inspection agents,
(g)an approved designated staff of the National Agency for Food and Drug Ad…

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