Section 18: Offences

(1) Any person, not being a person duly registered under this Act, who-
(a) for or in expectation of reward practises or holds himself out to practise as such; 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 surveyor, shall be guilty of an offence under this section.
(2)
If any person, for the purpose of procuring the registration of any name, qualification or other matter-
(a) makes a statement which is 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 under this Act.
(3) If the registrar or any other person employed by the Council wilfully makes any falsification in any matter relating to the register maintained under this Act, he shall be guilty of an offence.
(4) A person guilty of an offence under this Act shall be liable-
(a) on conviction in a magistrate's court, to a fine not exceeding N500 and, where the offence is a continuing one, to a further fine not exceeding N50 for each day during which the offence continues;
(b) on conviction in a High Court, to a fine not exceeding N1000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both such fine and imprisonment and, where the offence is a continuing one, to a further fine not exceeding N100 for each day during which the offence continues.
(5) Where an offence under this section has been committed by a body corporate and it 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.