Section 15: Overloading or driving a vehicle in an unsafe condition

Where on a Federal highway an offence relating to the overloading of a commercial vehicle or of driving a commercial vehicle in an unsafe condition or at a speed exceeding that prescribed by law is committed, the persons liable to conviction in respect of the offence shall be-
(a) the driver;
(b) the owner if not also the driver; and
(c) a bailee if not also the driver,
so however that proceedings against any person as owner or bailee under paragraph (b) or (c) of this section shall not be instituted without the approval of the Attorney-General of the Federation, and it shall be a good defence to a prosecution if the owner or bailee as aforesaid, proves to the satisfaction of the court that no act or omission on his part was conducive to the commission of the offence.