Section 18: Penalties

(1) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with any provisions of this Act, or any regulation made thereunder, commits an offence and is liable upon conviction to a fine not exceeding N2,000 or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment, and, in the case of a continuing offence to an additional fine not exceeding N100 for every day or part of a day that the offence continues.
(2) Where an offence under this Act has been committed by a body corporate or firm or other association of individuals, a person who at the time of the commission of the offence was any officer thereof or was purporting to act in such capacity, is severally guilty of that offence and liable to be prosecuted against and punished for the offence in like manner as if he had himself committed the offence, unless he proves that the act or omission constituting the offence took place without his knowledge, consent or connivance.