Section 244: False scales

1 Where under the provisions of a customs and excise law, a person is required to provide a scale for the purpose of that law, and the person provides, uses, or permits to be used a scale which is false and unjust, that person commits an offence under this section.

2 Where goods are to be weighed, counted, gauged or measured for the purposes of taking account of examinations by an officer, and where a person referred to in subsection (1), or any person by whom or on whose behalf the goods are weighed, counted, gauged or measured, does anything either before, during or after the weighing, counting, gauging and measuring, whereby the officer is or might be prevented from, or hindered, or deceived into taking a just account or making a due examination, the person commits an offence under this section.

3 Any person who commits an offence under this section is liable on conviction to a fine of N 1,500,000 and any false or unjust scales and any goods in connection with which the offence was committed shall be forfeited.