Section 20: Leakage of examination papers, etc.

(1) Any person engaged in setting, moderating, revising, vetting, printing or in the collection, storage, distribution or custody of live question papers or instructions, or in making drafts or copies thereof or engaged as a supervisor, invigilator, attendant or otherwise howsoever who, before or during the period of an examination knowingly or recklessly and without being lawfully authorised so to do, discloses the contents of any such live question paper or instructions, or of any draft or copy thereof to any person (whether a candidate for that examination or not) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of N2,000 or imprisonment for a term of five years or to both such fine and imprisonment.
(2) Any person (whether a candidate at an examination or not) who knowingly makes use of the contents of any live question paper or instructions of any draft or copy thereof in any manner howsoever, and without being lawfully authorised so to do, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of N2,000 or imprisonment for a term of five years or to both such fine and imprisonment.
(3) Where an offence under subsection (1) or (2) of this section is committed by a child or young person, then the provisions of any law relating to children and young persons in force in the State in which the offence is committed or tried shall apply in relation to the offence as they apply in relation to offences under that law.
(4) No prosecution for an offence under this section shall be instituted without the consent in writing of the Attorney-General of the Federation.
(5) For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that a prosecution for an offence under this section may be brought against a person notwithstanding that any of the penalties contained in section 19 of this Act has been imposed on that person in accordance with the provisions of that section or in pursuance of section 22 (3) of this Act.
(6) For the purposes of this section-
"child" means a person under the age of fourteen years; and
"young person" means a person who has attained the age of fourteen years but is under the age of seventeen years.