Section 13: Penalties for unprofessional conduct

(1) Where -
(a) a member is judged by the Tribunal to be guilty of infamous conduct in any professional respect;
(b) a member is convicted, by any court of competent jurisdiction in Nigeria or elsewhere of an offence (whether or not punishable with imprisonment) which in the opinion of the Tribunal is incompatible with the status of a Statistician; 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 or further defer its decision as to the giving of a direction under subsection (1) until a subsequent meeting of the Tribunal, but no —
(a) decision shall be deferred under this subsection for a period exceeding two years in the aggregate; and
(b) person shall be a member of the Tribunal for the purpose 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) For the purpose of subsection (1), a person shall not be treated as a convict unless the conviction stands at a time when no appeal or further appeal is pending or may (without extension of time) be brought in connection with the conviction.
(4) 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.
(5) The person to whom such a direction relates may, at any time within 28 days from the date of serving on him of notice of the direction, appeal against the direction to the Federal High Court.
(6) 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 of proceedings before the Tribunal, the Tribunal shall be deemed to be a party whether or not it appears on the hearing of the appeal.
(7) A direction of the Tribunal under subsection (1) shall take 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(b) an appeal is brought and is withdrawn or struck out for want of prosecution, on the withdrawal or striking out of the appeal; or
(c) an appeal is brought and is not withdrawn or struck out, if and when the appeal is dismissed.
(8) A person whose name is removed from the register under a direction of the Tribunal under this section is not entitled to be registered again except under a direction in that behalf given by the Tribunal on the application of that person.
(9) A direction under this section for the removal of a person's name from the register may prohibit an application under subsection (7) 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) or as may be specified in the direction.