Exclusive Economic Zone Act (Cap T5)
Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Nigeria
This is an Act to delimit the exclusive economic zone of Nigeria being an area extending up to 200 nautical miles seawards from the coasts of Nigeria. Within this Zone, and subject to universally recognized rights of other States (including land-locked States), Nigeria would exercise certain sovereign rights, especially with the conservation or exploitation of the natural resources (minerals, living species, etc.) of the sea bed, its subsoil and suprajacent waters and the right to regulate by law the establishment of artificial structures and installations and marine scientific research, amongst other things. Its section is concerned with the delimitation of the exclusive economic zone of Nigeria.
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Exclusive Economic Zone Act (Cap T5) Current Version
January 2022
This is an Act to delimit the exclusive economic zone of Nigeria being an area extending up to 200 nautical miles seawards from the coasts of Nigeria. Within this Zone, and subject to universally recognized rights of other States (including land-locked States), Nigeria would exercise certain sovereign rights, especially with the conservation or exploitation of the natural resources (minerals, living species, etc.) of the sea bed, its subsoil and suprajacent waters and the right to regulate by law the establishment of artificial structures and installations and marine scientific research, amongst other things. Its section is concerned with the delimitation of the exclusive economic zone of Nigeria.
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