Section 14: Offences and venue for trial thereof.

(1) Any person not being a town planner 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 town planner, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.
(2) Any person on the provisional register who, otherwise than in accordance with section 11 of this Act-
(a) for or in expectation of reward, practises or holds himself out to practise as a town planner; 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 town planner, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.
(3) If any person, for the purpose of procuring the registration of any name, qualification or other matter-
(a) makes a statement which he believes or ought reasonably to believe 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 under this Act.
(4) If any person employed by the Council wilfully makes any falsification in any matter relating to the register, he shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.
(5) A person found guilty of an offence under this Act shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding N1,000 or to 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 N20 for each and every day that the offence continues.
(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.
(7) Without prejudice to the other provisions of this Act, offences under this Act shall be triable in the Federal High Court.