(1) Any person who-

(a) exports or attempts to export any antiquity without an export permit or otherwise than in accordance with an export permit or otherwise than through a recognised customs port or airport; or

(b) sells or offers any antiquity for sale by way of trade or business without a licence or otherwise than in accordance with a licence issued by the Board; or

(c) by excavation or similar operations searches for any antiquity without a permit or otherwise than in accordance with a permit issued by the Board; or

(d) without the written consent of the Board, alters, destroys, damages or removes from its original site any antiquity, or attempts to do so; or

(e) defaces, damages or destroys any notice or tablet erected by the Board; or

(f) in any application to the Board or to the Director under this Decree, knowingly makes any statement which is false in any material respect or supplies any photograph which is false in any material respect; or

(g) willfully obstructs any member or employee of the Board in the exercise of any power conferred on the Board by this Decree; or

(h) otherwise contravenes or fails to comply with any provision of this Decree, shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred New Cedis or to imprisonment not exceeding twelve months, or to both.

(2) Where a person is convicted of attempting to export any antiquity contrary to any provision of this Decree the Court may order that the antiquity be forfeited to the National Museum.

(3) Where a person is convicted of an offence which has resulted in damage to, destruction or removal of any antiquity or any part thereof, or any notice or tablet erected by the Board, the court may, in addition to any other penalty which it may impose, order him to pay such sum as the court may determine to repair the damage or for the value of the thing removed or destroyed, and may, in default of such payment, order him to be imprisoned for a further period not exceeding three months in addition to any term imposed under sub-paragraph (1).