Section 32: protection of public officers.

(1) The prescribed authorities and officers in charge of public armouries in Nigeria are hereby authorised and empowered to take all such necessary action and to do all such things as the efficient execution of any of the provisions of this Act may reasonably require.
(2) Where any proceedings whether civil or criminal are brought against any public officer in respect of any act done in pursuance of the provisions of this Act or any regulations made hereunder it shall be a good defence to prove that there was reasonable and probable cause for the act in respect of which such proceedings are brought.