Section 11: Unauthorised use or possession of seals, etc.

Any person who-(a)
makes unauthorised use of any prescribed type of seals, presses, punch-dies or other sealing or marking appliances used for sealing produce or for marking containers or of any apparatus for sampling or testing produce, or for extracting any of the contents of bags of produce intended for export or detained under the provisions of this Act; or
(b) is found in possession of any such article or of any article so closely resembling the same as reasonably to be mistaken therefor without lawful excuse (the onus of proving such lawful excuse being upon the person charged),
shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable to a fine of N400 or to imprisonment for one year, or to both such fine and imprisonment.