Section 17: Penalties.

Subject to the provisions of Part II of this Act relating to offences committed in relation to apparatus on board a foreign ship or foreign aircraft, any person committing any offence under this Act-(a)
shall, if the offence is under Part II of this Act and consists either-
(i) in the installation or use, otherwise than under and in accordance with a licence, of any apparatus not designed or adapted for emission (as opposed to reception); or
(ii) in a failure or refusal to cause any licence or authority to be surrendered to the Commission, be liable, in the case of the first such offence, to a fine of N20, and, in the case of any subsequent such offence, to a fine of N100;
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(b) shall, if the offence is under Part III of this Act and consists in the use, or in the causing or permitting of the use, or in the selling, offering or advertising for sale, or letting on hire or offering or advertising for letting on hire, of apparatus in contravention of notice of the Commission, not being apparatus the use of which is likely to cause undue interference with any wireless telegraphy used for the purpose of any safety of life service or any purpose on which the safety of any person or of any vessel, aircraft or vehicle may depend, be liable, in the case of the first such offence, to a fine of N20, and in the case of any subsequent such offence, to a fine of N100;
(c) shall, in the case of any other offence, be liable to imprisonment for three months or to a fine of N200 or to both such imprisonment and such a fine.