Section 1: Prohibition of activities relating to harmful waste, etc.

(1)
Notwithstanding the provisions of the Customs, Excise Tariff, etc. (Consolidation) Act, or any other enactment, or law, all activities relating to the purchase, sale, importation, transit, transportation, deposit, storage of harmful wastes are hereby prohibited and declared unlawful.
[Cap. C49.]
(2) As from the commencement of this Act, any person who, without lawful authority-
(a) carries, deposits, dumps or causes to be carried, deposited or dumped, or is in possession for the purpose of carrying, depositing or dumping, any harmful waste on any land or in any territorial waters or contiguous zone or Exclusive Economic Zone of Nigeria or its inland waterways; or
(b) transports or causes to be transported or is in possession for the purpose of transporting any harmful waste: or
(c) imports or causes to be imported or negotiates for the purpose of importing any harmful waste; or
(d) sells, offers for sale, buys or otherwise deals in any harmful waste,
shall be guilty of a crime under this Act.
(3) A person shall be deemed to deposit or dump harmful waste under this Act if he deposits or dumps the harmful waste, whether solid, semi-solid or liquid, in such circumstances, or for such period that he may be deemed-
(a) to have abandoned it where it is deposited or dumped; or
(b) to have brought it to the place where it is so deposited or dumped for the purpose of its being disposed of or abandoned whether by him or any other person.