Section 46, The Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection Act, 2012

(1) Any person who– (a) willfully obstructs another person in the exercise of that person's duties under this Act; (b) without reasonable excuse fails to produce a licence or other document required to be produced by this Act; (c) willfully withholds any information relating to ownership or management required under this Act; or Confidentiality. Offences. 36 37 Power to give directions. Categories of radioactive substances. No. 7 Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection Act 2012 No. 7 Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection Act 2012 (d) willfully prevents or attempts to prevent any person from giving information relating to ownership or management required under this Act; or (e) gives information which he knows to be untrue or has no reason to believe to be true, commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding ten million Leones or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both such fine and imprisonment. (2) Without prejudice to subsection (1), any person who contravenes any other provisions of this Act commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding ten million Leones or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both such fine and imprisonment. (3) Where an offence under this Act is committed by a body corporate, that offence shall be deemed to have been committed by every director, corporate secretary or manager of the body corporate unless he proves that the offence was committed without his consent or connivance and that he exercised all such diligence to prevent the commission of the offence as he ought to have exercised having regard to the nature of his functions and the circumstances of the case. (4) Where an offence under this Act is committed by a partnership or firm, every person who at the time of the commission of the offence was a partner in that firm or was purporting to act in that office shall be deemed to have committed the offence unless he proves that the offence was committed without his consent or connivance and that he exercised all such diligence to prevent the commission of the offence he ought to have exercised having regard to the nature of his functions and the circumstances of the case. (5) The Court may, in addition to any punishment imposed for an offence under this Act, order the forfeiture of any irradiating device or radioactive material by which an offence is committed and shall determine the manner of disposal of the device or material.