Section 8: Offences and penalties

(1) Any person who-
(a) wilfully obstructs the Registrar or any officer so authorised in the due execution of his duties; or
(b) names or releases a crop variety or livestock breed in Nigeria without the written authority of the Registrar to do so; or
(c) in giving any information for the purposes of this Act, knowingly or recklessly makes any statement which is false in any material particular,
shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.
(2) Any person found guilty of an offence under this Act shall be liable on conviction to a fine of N200 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment.
(3) Where an offence under this Act is committed by a body corporate and is proved to have been committed with the connivance of or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or any person purporting to act in any such capacity, he as well as the body corporate shall be deemed to be guilty of that offence and liable on conviction to a fine of N5,000.