Section 42: Penalties for unprofessional conduct.

(1) Where the Tribunal is satisfied that the name of any person has been fraudulently registered, the Tribunal may, if it considers fit, give a direction-
(a) reprimanding that person;
(b) ordering the Institute to strike out his name off the register; or
(c) requiring the person to pay a fine of not less than £4200,000.00 as may be specified in the direction.
(2) The Tribunal may, if it considers fit, defer its decision as to the giving of a direction under subsection (1) until a subsequent meeting of the Tribunal, provided that-
(a) no decision shall be deferred under this subsection for periods exceeding six months in the aggregate; and
(b) a person shall not be a member of the Tribunal for the purposes of reaching a decision which has been deferred unless he was present as a member of the Tribunal when the decision to defer the Tribunal's decision was taken.
(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) A person to whom a direction under subsection (1) relates may, at any time within 30 days from the date of service on him of the notice of direction, appeal against the direction to the Tribunal.
(5) The Tribunal shall set up a new sitting to determine the appeal and give a direction and the direction is final and cannot be appealed.
(6) A direction of the Tribunal under subsection (1) shall take effect, where-
(a) no appeal under subsection (5) is brought against the direction within the time limited for such an appeal, on the expiration of that time; or
(b) an appeal under subsection (4) is brought against the direction, but it is withdrawn or upheld at the appeal sitting.
(7)
A person whose name is struck out of a register kept under this Act under a direction of the Tribunal or whose name as a registered person is removed or suspended from the register is not entitled to be re-registered in that register, except under a direction given by the Tribunal.