FEDERAL CHARACTER COMMISSION (ESTABLISHMENT, ETC.) ACT

Section 15: Penalties.

1996Section 15 of 20Federal Republic of Nigeria

(1) Any person who commits an offence under section 14 of this Act is liable on conviction to a fine of N50,000 or to imprisonment for a term of six months or to both such fine and imprisonment.
(2)
Where an offence under this section is committed by a corporate body, any of its directors, managers, officers, employees or partners, recklessly, negligently, wilfully acquiesces in the commission of the offence shall jointly and severally be guilty of the offence and liable on conviction to a fine of N100,000 in the case of the corporate body or to a fine of N50,000 in the case of individual.
(3) Any person, or body corporate or unincorporate who is in persistent breach of the provisions of this Act is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of N10,000 for every day the offence is committed notwithstanding the fine of N100,000 specified in subsection (1) of this section and in the case of an individual or staff of such body, to imprisonment for a term of two years without an option of a fine.

Cite this section

Section 15, FEDERAL CHARACTER COMMISSION (ESTABLISHMENT, ETC.) ACT (1996).

https://repo.podus.ai/laws/federal-character-commission-establishment-etc-act/section/15/