CRIMINAL JUSTICE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT

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CRIMINAL JUSTICE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT

CHAPTER C39 LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA, L.F.N. 2004

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1.       Damage to telecommunication works an offence.

2.       Damage to electricity lines, etc., an offence.

3.       Damage, etc., to oil pipelines an offence.

4.       Ascertainment of damage under this Act.

5.       Punishment for parties to offences under this Act.

6.       Power to arrest without warrant.

7.       Trials and prosecution of offences.

8.       Repeals.

9.       Interpretation.

10.     Short title.

SCHEDULE – Enactments repealed

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CRIMINAL JUSTICE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT

An Act to provide stiffer penalties for damages to telephone communication works, electricity transmission lines and oil pipelines and to enable armed patrols arrest any person committing an offence under this Act.

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[Commencement]                              [16th October, 1975]    

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1.       Damage to telecommunication works an offence

(1)     Any person who wilfully and unlawfully-

(a)     destroys, damages or removes any telecommunication works; or

(b)     otherwise prevents or obstructs the sending or delivering of a communication by means of telecommunication, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.

(2)     Any person found guilty of an offence under subsection (1) of this section shall, on conviction be liable —

(a)     in the case of an offence under paragraph (a) of subsection (1), to a fine of two times  the value of any such telecommunication works as might have been destroyed, damaged or removed by him or N2,000, whichever is higher, or to imprisonment for ten  years or to both such fine and imprisonment; or

(b)     in the case of an offence under paragraph (b) of subsection (1), to a fine of N500 or to imprisonment for three years or to both such fine and imprisonment.

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