Section 17: Penalties

(1) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this Act or the regulations made under it or fails to comply with any requirement imposed on him by a notice under subsection (1) of section 4 of this Act shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of not less than fifty thousand naira or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both such fine and imprisonment.
[1999 No. 21.]
(2) Where an offence under this section committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or any person purporting to act in any such capacity, he, as well as the body corporate, shall be deemed to be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.