Section 1: Certain offences in respect of passports

(1) As from the commencement of this Act, it shall be an offence for any person-
(a) not being a citizen of Nigeria, to have, hold or be in possession of any Nigerian passport;
(b) to have, hold or be in unauthorised possession of more than one valid standard Nigerian passport;
(c) unlawfully to alter, tamper with or mutilate any passport or any pages thereof;
(d) knowingly to make or cause to be made any false statement for the purpose of procuring a passport whether for himself or for another person;
(e) to submit multiple application forms to one or more passport offices with the intention of obtaining multiple passports;
(f) to knowingly conceal, hide from or fail to disclose to the proper authority the loss of a passport;
(g) to act as a broker at or in the vicinity of any passport office or elsewhere, for the procurement of a passport;
(h) to forge or traffic in passports or to hold or be in possession of any forged passport knowing the same to be forged;
(i) to attempt, aid, abet, counsel, procure or connive or conspire with any other person to commit any of the offences set out in this subsection.
(2) Any person found guilty of an offence under paragraphs (b) to (i) of subsection (1) of this section shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year.
(3) A person shall not be regarded as being in possession of more than one standard Nigerian passport if, in addition thereto, he is in possession of any other passport of the following descriptions issued to him by the lawful authority, that is to say-
(a) a Nigerian diplomatic or official passport;
(b) a Nigerian pilgrim's passport; or
(c) a seaman's passport or seaman's card of identification.
(4) In this section, "standard Nigerian passport" means any passport of certain description normally issued to a Nigerian citizen, not being a passport of the description specified in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of subsection (3) of this section.