Section 25: PENALTIES FOR UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT

(1) Where-
(a) a registered person is adjudged by the Committee to be guilty of infamous misconduct in any professional respect,
(b) a registered person is convicted in Nigeria or elsewhere by any court of competent jurisdiction, or
(c) the Committee determines that the name of any person has been fraudulently registered, the Committee may give a direction reprimanding that person or ordering the Registrar to strike the person's name out of the relevant part of the Register.
(2) The Committee may defer or further defer its decision as to the giving of a direction under subsection (1) until a subsequent meeting of the Committee.
(3) The Committee may not defer its decision under subsection (2) for a period exceeding one year.
(4) When the Committee gives a direction under subsection (1), the Committee shall cause notice of the direction to be served on the person to whom it relates.
(5) The person to whom a direction under subsection (1) relates may, at any time within 28 days from the date of service on him, appeal against the direction to the Federal High Court.
(6) A person whose name is removed from the register under a direction of the Committee may not be registered again except under a direction in that respect given by the Committee on the application of that person.
(7) A direction for the removal of a person's name from the register may prohibit an application under subsection (1) of this section by that person until the expirarion of such period from the date of the direction.