Section 15: Offences and penalties

(1) Any person who-
(a) when required in accordance with the provisions of this Act to register himself, fails to do so;
(b) wilfully obstructs the Chief Registrar, a registrar or any employee of the Department in the due execution of his duties;
(c) in giving any information for the purposes of this Act, knowingly or recklessly makes any statement which is false in any material particular;
(d) falsely denies that he was previously registered or by a false representation or any act or omission, attempts to deceive or deceives the Chief Registrar or a registrar or other employee of the Department, as the case may be, as to any circumstances concerning such previous registration or particulars given on such previous registration;
(e) wilfully destroys or mutilates a national identity card issued under this Act;
(f) being a registrar or employee of the Department, unlawfully issues any national identity card or makes any entry, alteration or erasure on any national identity card;
(g) unlawfully deprives any person of the national identity card issued to him under this Act;
(h) is in unlawful possession or makes use of a national identity card issued to any other person under this Act;
(i) is knowingly in possession of any national identity card on which any unlawful entry, alteration or erasure has been made or of a document so closely resembling a national identity card as to be calculated to deceive;
(j) is in possession of more than one national identity card issued under this Act at anyone time;
(k) hands over the national identity card issued to him under this Act to any other person to be used by such other person, for any purpose not authorised by this Act or any unlawful purpose whatsoever;
(l) causes himself to be registered in a registration area other than as specified in section 7 (5) of this Act;
(m) refuses, in satisfaction of any purpose whatsoever, to accept a national identity card issued under this Act as sufficient identification of the person to whom it is issued,
shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.
(2) Any person found guilty of an offence, shall be liable on conviction for a first offence, to a fine not exceeding N200 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment and for a second or subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding N500 or to imprisonment for one year or to both such fine and imprisonment.