OIL PIPELINES ACT

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OIL PIPELINES ACT

CHAPTER O7 LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA, L.F.N. 2004

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART I: PRELIMINARY SECTION

1.     Short title and extent.

2.     Interpretation.

3.     Power to grant permit to survey and oil pipeline licence.

PART II: PERMIT TO SURVEY

4.     Entitlement of discoverer of commercial quantities of oil to a permit to survey.

5.     Effect of permit to survey.

6.     Notice before entry, damage, compensation, etc.

PART III: OIL PIPELINE LICENCE

7.     Holder of permit entitled to oil pipeline licence

8.     Application for licence and notice thereof.

9.     Notice of objection.

10.    Inquiry and report thereafter.

11.    Rights and obligations of the holder of a licence.

12.    Power to impose restrictions on use of adjoining lands.

13.    Deviations.

14.    Restrictions in respect of certain public facilities.

15.    Restrictions upon entry in respect of venerated land.

16.    Obligations in respect of accommodation works.

17.    Terms and conditions of licences.

18.    Use of oil pipeline by a person other than the owner.

PART IV: COMPENSATION  

19.    Court having jurisdiction as to compensation.

20.    Basis of assessment of compensation.

21.    Compensation where native community interested.

22.    Parties in possession as owners to be deemed entitled to lands.

23.    Exoneration upon payment.

PART V: MISCELLANEOUS

24.    Proceedings where possession of land withheld.

25.    Penalty for hindering the taking possession of lands, etc.

26.    Deviation when land required for public purpose.

27.    Effect of breach of terms or conditions.

28.    Disposal of pipeline and installations on termination of licence

29.    Sale of licence by court to be approved by Minister.

30.    Effect of this Act upon other enactments.

31.    Fees.

32.    Offences by bodies corporate.

33.    Regulations.

34.    Delegation of powers of Minister.

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OIL PIPELINES ACT

This is an Act to make provision for licences to be granted for the establishment and maintenance of pipelines incidental and supplementary to oilfields and oil mining and for purposes ancillary to such pipelines.

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 [COMMENCEMENT]                        [4^th day of October 1956]

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