Section 20: Penalty for unprofessional conduct.

(1) Where-
(a) a person registered under this Act is adjudged by the Disciplinary Tribunal to be guilty of infamous misconduct in any professional matter,
(b) a person registered under this Act is convicted by a court or tribunal in Nigeria or elsewhere having power to impose imprisonment as penalty for any offence (whether or not punishable with imprisonment) which, in the opinion of the Disciplinary Tribunal, is incompatible with the status of a member of the Food Profession, or
(c) the Disciplinary Tribunal is satisfied that the name of any person has been fraudulently registered, the Disciplinary Tribunal may, if it deems fit, give a directive reprimanding that person or ordering the Registrar to strike the person's name off the relevant part of the register.
(2) The Disciplinary 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 Disciplinary Tribunal, but —
(a) decisions shall not be deferred under this subsection for periods exceeding one year in the aggregate; and
(b) a person shall not be a member of the Disciplinary Tribunal, for the purpose of reaching a decision which has been deferred, unless he was present as a member of the Disciplinary Tribunal when the decision was deferred.
(3) 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.
(4) When the Disciplinary Tribunal gives a direction under subsection (1), the Disciplinary Tribunal shall cause nonce of the direction to be served on the person to whom it relates.
(5) A person to whom a direction relates may, at any time within 28 days from the date of service on him of notice of the directive, appeal against the directive to the Federal High Court and the Disciplinary Tribunal may appear as the respondent to the appeal, and for the purpose of enabling directives to be given as to the costs of the appeal and proceedings before the Federal High Court, the Disciplinary Tribunal is deemed to be a party, whether or not it appears on the hearing of the appeal.
(6) A directive of the Disciplinary Tribunal under subsection (1) takes effect where —
(a) no appeal is brought against the direction within the time limit provided Tor the appeal or 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 dismissed.
(7) A directive of the Disciplinary Tribunal does not take effect except in accordance with the provisions of th1S section.
(8) A person whose name is struck off the register under the directive of the Disciplinary Tribunal under this section and is not entitled to be registered again except under a directive in that behalf, a directive under this section to strike off 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 directive (and where he has duly made such an application, from the date of his last application) as may be specified in the directive.