Section 3: Restriction on flying certain flags

(1) Any person who otherwise than in conformity with the terms of a licence granted by the Minister or under other lawful authority, flies or exhibits in any public place any of the following flags, that is to say-
(a) the Royal Standard or the personal standard of royal as Head of the Commonwealth when in Nigeria
(b) any flag for the time being appointed to be flown by the President;
(c) any flag appointed to be flown only on ships of the Nigerian Navy, or in connection with establishments of the armed forces of Nigeria or the armed forces of any member State of the Commonwealth;
(d) any flag for the time being appointed to be flown by a department, or any branch of a department, of the Government of the Federation;
(e) any flag so closely resembling any such flag as aforesaid that it might reasonably be taken to be that flag,
shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.
(2) Any person who, except otherwise than in conformity with the terms of a licence granted by the Minister or under other lawful authority, flies or exhibits in any public place-
(a) the National flag; or
(b) the flag of any member State of the Commonwealth,
[L.N. 139 of 1965.]
if the flag so flown or exhibited bears thereon any addition, or is in any way modified or defaced, shall be guilty of an offence against this Act:
Provided that nothing in this subsection shall be deemed to restrict the flying or exhibiting of the flag of any State in so far as the National Flag forms part thereof.