Section 16: Penalties for unprofessional conduct

(1) Where –
(a) a member is judged by the Disciplinary Committee to be guilty of infamous conduct in any professional respect,
(b) a member is convicted, by any court or tribunal in Nigeria or elsewhere having power to award imprisonment, of an offence or (whether or not punishable with imprisonment which, in the opinion of the Disciplinary Committee, is incompatible with the status of a member of the profession or,
(c) the Disciplinary Committee is satisfied that the name of any person has been fraudulently registered,
the Disciplinary Committee may, if it deems fit, give a direction reprimanding that person or ordering the Registrar to strike his name off the relevant part of the register.
(2) The Disciplinary Committee may, if it deems fit, defer its decisions as to the giving of a direction under subsection (1) until a subsequent meeting of the Disciplinary Committee but no –
(a) decision shall be referred under this subsection for a period exceeding two years on the aggregate; and
(b) person shall be a member of the Disciplinary Committee for purposes of reaching a decision which has been deferred or further deferred, unless he was present as a member of the Disciplinary Committee when the decision was deferred.
(3) For the purpose of subsection (1) (b), a person shall not be treated as convicted as therein mentioned unless the conviction stands at a time when no appeal or further appeal is pending or may (without extension or time) be brought in connection with the conviction.
(4) When the Disciplinary Committee gives a direction under subsection (1), the Disciplinary Committee shall cause notice of the direction to be served on the person to whom it relates.
(5) A person, whose name is struck off the register under a direction of the Disciplinary Committee under this section, is not entitled to be enrolled or registered again except under a direction in that behalf given by the Disciplinary Committee on the application of the person.
(6) Direction under this section for the removal of name of a person from the register may prohibit an application under this subsection by that person until the expiration of such period from the date of the direction (and where he has duly made such an application, from the date of his last application) as may be specified in the direction.