Section 10: Certain offences in respect of passports.

(1) A person who-
(a) has, holds or is in unauthorised possession of more than one valid standard Nigerian Passport,
(b) unlawfully alters, tampers with or mutilates any passport or any pages thereof,
(c)
knowingly makes or causes to be made any false statement for the purpose of procuring a passport whether for himself or for another person,
(d) submits multiple application forms to one or more passport offices with the intention of obtaining multiple passports,
(e) knowingly conceals, hides from or fails to disclose to the proper authority the loss of a passport,
(f) acts as a broker at or in the vicinity of any passport office or elsewhere, for the procurement of a passport,
(g) forges or traffics in passports or holds or is in possession of any forged passport knowing the same to be forged, or
(h)
attempts, aids, abets, counsels, procures, connives or conspires within any other person to do any of the acts mentioned in this subsection,
commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term of ten years or a fine of Two Million Naira or both.
(2) A person shall not be regarded as being in possession of more than one standard Nigerian Passport if, in addition, he is in possession of any other passport of the following descriptions issued to him by the lawful authority-
(a) a Nigerian Diplomatic Passport ;
(b) a Nigerian Official Passport ;
(c) a Nigerian Pilgrim's Passport ; or
(d) a Seaman's Passport or Seaman's Certificate of ldentification.
(3)
ln this section, "Standard Nigerian Passport" means any passport of certain description normally issued to a Nigerian citizen, not being a passport of the description specified in subsection (2) (a)-(c) of this section.
(4) For the avoidance of doubt-
(a) a person seeking entry shall be treated as in Nigeria after he has complied with all formalities prscribed for inspection by immigration , health and custom authorities and whether the compliance is subject to conditions or otherwise; and
(b)
any permit issued under any repealed Act and valid immediately before the commencement of th is Act, shall, on the commencement thereof, be deemed to have been issued under this Act for the unexpired balance of the term of the permit and may be dealt with accordingly.