Section 19: Penalties for unprofessional conduct.

(1) Where -
(a) a member is adjudged by the Tribunal to be guilty of a professional misconduct;
(b) a member is convicted, by any court in Nigeria or elsewhere, whether or not punishable with imprisonment, which in the opinion of the Tribunal is incompatible with the status of a member of the profession or;
(c) the Tribunal is satisfied that the name of any person has been fraudulently 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.
(3) No decision shall be deferred under subsection (2) for a period exceeding one year in the aggregate.
(4) A person shall not 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.
(5) 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 may, without extension of time, be brought in connection with the conviction.
(6) 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.
(7) The person to whom such a direction relates may, at any time within 28 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 Tribunal, shall be deemed to be a party to the appeal whether or not it appears on the hearing of the appeal.
(8) A direction of the Tribunal given 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, or at the expiration of that time;
(b) such an appeal is brought and is withdrawn or struck out for want of prosecution, or dismissed for lack of merit; or
(c) such an appeal is brought and is not withdrawn or struck out, when the appeal is dismissed.
(9) A person whose name is removed from the register as a result of a direction of the Tribunal under this section shall not be entitled to be registered again except in pursuance of a direction in that regard given by the Tribunal on the application of that person.
(10) A direction under this section for the removal of a person's name from the register may prohibit an application under subsection (9) 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.