Section 14: Offences and penalties.

(1) A person, not being a registered Professional Counsellor, who-
(a) for or in expectation of reward, practices or holds himself out to practice 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 registered counsellor,
commits an offence under this Act.
(2) A person who, for the purpose of procuring the registration of any name, qualification or other matter-
(a) makes a statement which he believes to be false, or
(b) recklessly makes a statement which is false,
commits an offence under this Act.
(3) A Registrar or any other person employed by the Council who, willfully makes any falsification in any matter relating to the register, commits an offence under this Act.
(4) A person who commits an offence under subsections (1) - (3) or any section for which no punishment is provided under this Act is liable on conviction-
(a) to a fine of at least N500,000 or imprisonment for a term of two years or both; and
(b) where the offence is a continuous one, to a further fine of at least N50,000 for each day the offence continues.
(5) Where an offence under this section is committed by a body corporate and is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or is 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, commits an offence under this Act.