Section 24: Penalties for unprofessional conduct.

(1) Where-
(a) a member is adjudged by the Tribunal to be guilty of infamous conduct in any professional respect,
(b) a member is convicted in any court of law having power to award imprisonment for an offence, whether or not punishable with imprisonment which, in the opinion of the Tribunal, is incompatible with the status of a member of the Institute, or
(c) the Tribunal is satisfied that the name of any person has been fraudulently enrolled or registered,
the Tribunal 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 Tribunal may, if it deems fit, defer its decision as to the giving of a direction under subsection (1) until a subsequent meeting of the Tribunal, provided that no-
(a) decision shall be deferred under this subsection for any period exceeding two years in the aggregate; and
(b) 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 the decision was deferred.
(3) When the Tribunal gives a direction under subsection (1), the Tribunal shall cause notice of the direction to be served on the person to whom it relates.
(4) The person to whom a direction given under subsection (1) relates may, at any time within 30 days from the date of service on him of notice of the direction, appeal against the direction to the Federal High Court, and the Tribunal may appear as respondent to the appeal and for the purpose of enabling directions to be given as to the costs of the appeal and proceedings before the Federal High Court, the Tribunal, is deemed to be a party whether or not it appears on the hearing of the appeal.
(5) A direction of the Tribunal under section (1) takes effect where -
(a) no appeal under this section is brought against the direction within the time limited for such an appeal, on the expiration of that time;
(b) an appeal is brought and is withdrawn or struck out for want of prosecution, on the withdrawal or striking out of the appeal; and
(c) an appeal is brought and is not withdrawn or struck out, if and when the appeal is dismissed, and shall not take effect except in accordance with the provisions of this subsection.
(6) A person whose name is struck off under a direction of the Tribunal under this section, is not entitled to be enrolled or registered again, except in pursuance of a direction in that behalf given by the Tribunal on the application of that person and a direction 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 direction, and where he has duly made such an application, from the date of his last application, as may be specified in the direction.