Section 24: Information about deaths to be furnished by registrars of professional bodies

(1) The registrar of a registered professional body in Nigeria shall, on receiving notice of the death of any of its members, notify the Registrar-General within thirty days of the occurrence of the death.
(2) In this section, "a registered professional body" means a professional body registered under any enactment in force in Nigeria.
(3) If any person refuses or fails without reasonable excuse to give any information concerning any death which he is required by this section to give he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of N500 or imprisonment for a term of five months or to both such fine and imprisonment.