Section 15: Offences in relation to standards.

(1) Any person, other than the permitted manufacturer, who makes or sells or exposes for sale or uses for the purpose of advertising any material or document on or in which is portrayed-
(a) an industrial standard in any way resembling or purporting to be any of the Nigerian Industrial Standards established in pursuance of this Act; or
(b) a certification mark resembling or purporting to be a certification mark issued in pursuance of section 14 of this Act,
shall be guilty of an offence and on conviction liable to a fine not exceeding N1,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both such fine and imprisonment.
(2)
Where a person is convicted under this section, the court may make such order as to the forfeiture or destruction of the material or document in issue as it may think appropriate in the circumstances.