CHAPTER 5
USE AND PROTECTION OF EMBLEMS
Offences and penalties
15. (1) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with section 14 is guilty of an offence and on conviction liable to a fine or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding five years or to both a fine and such imprisonment.
(2) (a) When an offence contemplated in subsection (1) has been committed for which 5 any corporate body is or was liable to prosecution, any person who was, at the time of
the commission of the offence, a director or member of the management of the corporate body and who knew of or could have prevented the commission of the offence, is guilty of the said offence, either jointly with the corporate body or apart therefrom, and on conviction liable to the punishment provided for in that subsection.
(b) Section 332 of the Criminal Procedure Act, 1977 (Act No. 51 of 1977), with the exception of subsections (2)(c), (5), (7), (8) and (9) thereof, applies with the changes required by the context in respect of any prosecution of a corporate body or director or member of the management thereof for an offence contemplated in this section.
1. Subject to article 110, the Court may impose one of the following penalties on a person convicted of a crime referred to in article 5 of this Statute:
(a) Imprisonment for a specified number of years, which may not exceed a maximum of 30 years; or
(b) A term of life imprisonment when justified by the extreme gravity of the crime and the individual circumstances of the convicted person.
2. In addition to imprisonment, the Court may order:
(a) A fine under the criteria provided for in the Rules of Procedure and Evidence;
(b) A forfeiture of proceeds, property and assets derived directly or indirectly from that crime, without prejudice to the rights of bona fide third parties.