Section 30: Offences and penalties.

(1) A person who -
(a) hinders or obstructs an authorised officer in the exercise of his duties under this Act or regulations made under it;
(b) fails to comply with a lawful order or requirement made by an authorised officer under the provisions of this Act or regulations made under it; or
(c) fails, neglects or refuses to carry out a meteorological order issued under this Act, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of at least N250,000 or imprisonment for a term of six months or both.
(2) Any person who-
(a) collects, uses or disseminates weather forecast or any other meteorological information obtained from any other source outside the approval, licence or authority of the Agency for commercial or public purpose; or
(b) impersonates an authorised officer of the Agency, refuses to state or wrongly states his address and misleads or gives wrongful information to an authorised officer of the Agency,
commits an offence and is liable on conviction—
(i) in the case of an individual, to a fine of N1,000,000 or imprisonment for a term of three years or both; and
(ii) in the case of a body corporate, to a fine of at least N1,000,000 for every day after receipt of notice of the commission of the offence from the Agency.
(3) Where an offence by a body corporate is proved to have been committed on the instigation, with the connivance of, or is attributable to any neglect on the part of a director, manager, secretary, head of branch, project manager 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, where practicable, shall be deemed to have committed that offence and liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly in line with the provisions of subsection (1).
(4) Where an offence under this section continues unabated, the offender shall be liable, upon conviction to twice the fine and term of imprisonment imposed under this section.