QUANTITY SURVEYORS (REGISTRATION, ETC.) ACT

Section 15: Offences As Amended by Section 2 of the QUANTITY SURVEYORS (REGISTRATION, ETC.) (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2016

1986Section 15 of 20Federal Republic of Nigeria

(1) If any person who is not a registered quantity surveyor-
(a) for or in expectation of reward practises or holds himself out to practise as a registered quantity surveyor; or
(b) without reasonable excuse takes or uses any name, title, addition or description implying that he is authorised by law to practise as a registered quantity Surveyor,
he shall be guilty of an offence.
(2) Any person on the temporary register who, otherwise than in accordance with section 14 of this Act-
(a) for or in expectation of reward, practises or holds himself out to practise as a registered quantity surveyor; or
(b) without reasonable excuse takes, or uses any name, title, addition or description implying that he is authorised by law to practise as a registered quantity surveyor,
shall be guilty of an offence.
(3) If any person, for the purpose of procuring the registration of any name, qualification or other matter-
(a) makes a statement which he knows to be false in a material particular; or
(b) recklessly makes a statement which is false in a material particular, he shall be guilty of an offence.
(4) If the registrar or any other person employed by the Board wilfully makes any falsification in any matter relating to the register he shall be guilty of an offence.
(5) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on conviction in a High Court to a fine not exceeding N500,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to both such fine and imprisonment.
(6) Where an offence under this section which has been committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or, to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary, or other similar officer of the body corporate, or any person purporting to act in any such capacity, he, as well as the body corporate, shall be deemed to be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

Cite this section

Section 15, QUANTITY SURVEYORS (REGISTRATION, ETC.) ACT (1986).

https://repo.podus.ai/laws/quantity-surveyors-registration-etc-act/section/15/