Section 32: Penalties for professional misconduct.

(1) Where a person enrolled or registered under this Act is-
(a) adjudged by the Disciplinary Committee to be guilty of infamous conduct in any professional manner,
(b) convicted by acourt of competent jurisdiction of an offence which in the opinion of the Disciplinary Committee, is incompatible with the status of a member of the Institute, or
(2) The Disciplinary Committee may, if it deems fit, defer or further defer its decision as to the giving of a directive under subsection (1) of this Section until a subsequent meeting of the Disciplinary Committee but-
(a) no decision shall be deferred under this section for periods exceeding one year in the aggregate; and
(b) no person shall be a member of the Disciplinary Committee for the purposes of reaching a decision which was been deferred or further deferred unless he was present as a member of the Disciplinary Committee when
the decision was deferred.
(3) Forthe purpose of sub-section (1) (b) ofthis Seciion, a person shall not be treated as convicted unless the conviction stands at a time when no appeal, further appeal or application for extension of time to appeal out of time is pending in connection witlr the conviction.
(4) Where the Disciplinary Committee gives directive under subsection (1) of this section, the Disciplinary Committee shall cause notice of the directive to be served on the person to whom it relates.
(5) The person to whom a directive given under sub-section (1) of this Section relates, may, at anytime within 30 days from the date of service on him of notice of the directives, appeal against the directives to the Federal
High Court and the Disciplinary Committee may appear, as respondent to the
appeal and for the purpose of enabling directives to be given as to tlre costs of
the appeal proceedings before the Federal High Court, the Disciplinary Committee shall be deemed to be a party whether or not it appears on the hearing of the appeal.
(6) A directive of the Disciplinary Committee under subsection (1) of this section shall take effect where-
(a) no appeal under this section is brought against the directive within the time limit for the appeal ;
(b) the appeal is brought and is withdrawn or struck out for want of prosecution, on the withdrawal and striking out of the appeal ; or
(c) the appeal is brought and is not withdrawn or struck out if and when the appeal is dismissed.
(7) A person whose name has been struck of fthe Register in pursuance of a directive of the Disciplinary committee under this section shall not be entitled to be registered again except in pursuance on a direction in that behalf
given by the Disciplinary Committee on the application of that person.
(8) A directive under this section for the striking off of the name of a person from the Register may prohibit an application under subsection (7) of this section by that person until the expiration of such period from the date of
the directive (and where he has recently made such an application from the
date of his last application) as may be specified in the directive.