CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRINTERS

Section 33: Offences and Penalties.

2007Section 33 of 36Federal Republic of Nigeria

(1) Any person, not being a printing professional or Licensed Printer who offences :
(a) for or in expectation of reward practices or hold himself out to practices as such; or
(b) without reasonable excuse takes or uses any name, title, addition or description implying that he is authorised by law to practice as a Professional Licensed Printer, commits an offence.
(2) If any person, 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 make a statement, which is false in a material particular, commits an offence.
(3)
The Registrar or any person employed by the Council wilfully makes any falsification in any matter relating to the Register, commit an offence.
(4) A person who commits an offence under this Act is liable :
(a) on conviction in a court lower than the High Court, to a fine not exceeding N5,000 and where the offence is a continuing one, to a further fine not exceeding N200 for each and everyday that the offence continues ;
(b) on conviction in a High Court, to a fine not exceeding N10,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or both and where the offence is a continuing one, to a further fine not exceeding N500 for each and everyday that the offence continues ;
(5) Where an offence under this section has been committed by a body corporate and 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 any person purporting to act in any such capacity, he as well as the body corporate, shall be deemed to have committed that offence and is liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

Cite this section

Section 33, CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRINTERS (2007).

https://repo.podus.ai/laws/chartered-institute-of-professional-printers/section/33/