Section 18: PENALTIES FOR PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT

(1) Where-
(a) a person enrolled or registered under this Act is adjudged by the Tribunal to be guilty of infamous conduct in any professional respect, or
(b) a person enrolled or registered under this Act is convicted by any court or tribunal in Nigeria or elsewhere having power to impose a term of imprisonment for an offence (whether or not punishable with imprisonment) which is in the opinion of the Tribunal incompactible with the status of a project management professional, or
(c) the Tribunal is satistied that the name of any person has been fraudulently enrolled or registered, the person commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a term of imprisonment not exceeding five years.
(2) The Tribunal may, if it deems fit-
(a) give a directive reprimanding that person or orderingthe Registrar to strike his name off the relevant part of the register ; or
(b) defer or further defer its decision as to the giving of the directive under this section until a subsequent meeting of the Tribunal but no-
(i) decision shall be deferred under this section for periods exceeding one year in the aggregate, and
(ii) person shall be a member of the Tribunal for the purposes of reaching a decision which has been deferred or further deferred unless
he was present as a member of the Tribunal when that decision was deferred.
(3) For the purpose of subsection (1) (b), a person shall not be treated as convicted unless the conviction stands at a time when no appeal or further appeal is pending or no application for extension of time to appeal is brought in connection with the conviction.
(4) When the Tribunal gives a directive under subsection (2), the Tribunal shall cause notice of the directive to be served on the person to whom it relates.
(5) The person to whom a directive under subsection (2) relates may, at any time within 21 days from the date of service on him of notice of the directives, appeal against the directives to the Federal High Court and the Tribunal may appear as respondent to the apeal and for the purpose of enabling directives to be given as to the costs of the appeal proceedings before the Federal High Court, the Tribunal shall be deemed to be a party to the appeal whether or not it appeals on the hearings of the appeal.
(6) A directive on the Tribunal under 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) such an appeal is brought and is withdrawn or struck out for want of prosecution on the withdrawal or striking out of the appeal ; and
(c) such appeal is brought and is not withdrawn or struck out, if and when the appeal is dismissed, and shall not take effect except in accordance with foregoing provisions of this subsection.
(7) A person whose name is struck off the register in pursuance of a directive of the Tribunal under this section shall not be entitled to be registered again except for pursuance of a directive on that behalf given by the Federal High Court on the application of that person.
(8) A directive under this section for the striking off of a person's name from the register may prohibit an application under this subsection 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.