Managers or members of an artistic and cultural association or a group found guilty of embezzling funds belonging to or intended for the said cultural association shall be liable to the penalties provided for in Sections 184 and 225 of the Cameroon Penal Code.
The managers or administrators of an artistic and cultural association or group that remained in activity or was reconstituted illegally after dissolution or prohibition, during the period of suspension or after withdrawal of approval, as the case may be, shall be punished with imprisonment for from 3 (three) months to 1 (one) year or with fine of from 100,000 (one hundred thousand) francs CFA to 1,000,000 (one million) francs CFA, or with bath such imprisonment and fine.
Where the suspension or withdrawal of the approval, dissolution or prohibition of an artistic and cultural association or group was due to armed demonstrations, breach of the internal or external security of the State, the maximum penalties provided for above shall be doubled.
Any manager of a cultural association who applied for approval, and acts as though the approval had already been granted, or any manager of a group that goes operational prior to obtaining the declaration receipt shall be punished in accordance with the provisions above;
- Whoever in any manner whatsoever fosters the reunion of members of an artistic and cultural association that has been dissolved or banned, or whose
- Approval has been suspended or withdrawn, or of a dissolved group, shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the penal code.