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This Act provides for the establishment of an Exclusive Economic Zone of Nigeria, delimits the zone at two hundred nautical miles from the baselines, and regulates certain activities within the Zone. The EEZ shall extend up to a distance of 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial waters of Nigeria is measured. Section 2 provides for the exploitation of the EEZ. Section 4 provides for the applicability of criminal and civil laws in the EEZ: "Any act or omis
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), N