Section 17: Certificates to be produced, and interpretation.

(1) Any person driving a motor vehicle on a highway shall, on being so required by a police officer, give his name and address and the name and address of the owner of the motor vehicle and shall produce his certificate of insurance and any person contravening the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.
(2) In any case where owing to the presence of a motor vehicle on a highway an accident occurs involving bodily injury to any person the driver of the motor vehicle shall produce his certificate of insurance to a police officer or to any person having reasonable grounds for requiring its production and if any such driver for any reason fails so to produce his certificate of insurance he shall so soon as possible, and in any case within 24 hours of the occurrence report the accident and produce his certificate of insurance to the police station nearest to the scene of the accident or to the nearest administrative officer and any person contravening the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.
(3) The provisions of this section shall be in addition to and not in derogation of the relevant provisions of the Road Traffic Laws.
(4) In this section "to produce a certificate of insurance" means to produce for examination the relevant certificate of insurance or certificate of security or such other evidence as may be prescribed that the motor vehicle was not being driven in contravention of the provision of this Act.
(5) In this section "police officer" includes a member of the Nigeria Police Force, a member of a police force established and maintained by the Federal Government of Nigeria.