Section 12: Additional provisions as to powers to make subsidiary instruments, etc.

(1) Where an Act confers a power to make a subsidiary instrument, proclamation or notification, the power shall include-
(a) power to make different provision for different circumstances;
(b) power, exercisable in the like manner and subject to the like consent and conditions (if any), to vary and revoke the instrument, proclamation or notification;
(c) in the case of a subsidiary instrument, power to prescribe punishments for contraventions of provisions of the instrument, not exceeding as respects a particular contravention-
(i) in the case of rules of court imprisonment for a term of three months or a fine of fifty naira or both,
(ii) in any other case, imprisonment for a term of six months or a fine of one hundred naira or both.
(2) A contravention of a provision of a subsidiary instrument may be prosecuted in a summary manner.