Section 3: Enforcement.

(1) Any person who-
(a) imports any live fish into Nigeria otherwise than in accordance with this Act; or
(b) contravenes the conditions of a licence granted under this Act; or
(c) fails to comply with an undertaking given by him in pursuance of paragraph (b) of section 1 of this Act,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of an amount not exceeding forty naira or, in the case of a second or subsequent conviction under this section, to a fine of an amount not exceeding two hundred naira or imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or both.
(2) On convicting a person of an offence under this section relating to any fish, the court shall adjudge the fish or any substance into which the fish has been converted to be forfeited or, where the fish or the substance aforesaid has been destroyed, declare that but for its destruction the court would have adjudged it to be forfeited.
(3) Any superior police officer or any officer of the Board Customs and Excise not below the rank of Collector may, if he has reason to believe that an offence under this section has been committed with respect to any fish, seize and detain the fish with a view to instituting proceedings in respect of the offence; and any fish seized and detained in pursuance of this subsection shall be dealt with in the prescribed manner.