Section 19: Offences and penalties

(1) A person who for the purpose of procuring the registration of any name, qualification or other matter -
(a) makes a statement which he believes to be false in a material particular, or
(b) recklessly makes a statement which is false in a material particular, commits an offence.
(2) A person who, from the commencement of this Act, is not a member of the Institute but practices or holds himself out to practice as electrical and electronic engineering personnel for or in expectation of reward or takes or uses the name, titles, addition or description implying that he is in practice as an electrical and electronic engineering personnel, commits an offence under this Act.
(3) The provision of subsection (2) shall not apply in respect of anything done by a person during the period of three months mentioned in that subsection.
(4) Where within the period of three months mentioned under subsection (3) the person duly applies for membership of the Institute then, unless within that period he is notified that his application has not been approved, this subsection shall not apply in respect of anything done by him between the end of that period and the date on which he is enrolled or registered or is notified.
(5) The Registrar or any other person employed by or on behalf of the Institute who willfully makes any falsification in any matter relating to the register, commits an offence.
(6) A client who engages an unregistered practitioner commits an offence under this Act.
(7) A person who commits an offence under this section is liable on conviction to a fine of at least N300,000 of imprisonment for a term not more than two years or both.
(8) Where an offence under this subsection committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate or any person purporting to act in any such capacity, he, as well as the body corporate, is deemed to have committed the offence and is liable on conviction by a court of competent jurisdiction in the case of an individual to the punishment prescribed under subsection (5) and in the case of the body corporate, to a fine of at least N2,000,000.