Section 27, The West Africa Health Examination Board Act, 1986

Any person who, for the purpose of an examination conducted pursuant to this Constitution. (a) falsely represents himself to be some other person; or (b) alters any documents which has been issued by the Board or by any other lawful authority to another person, and whereby that other person is certified to be a person possessed of any qualification recognised for any purpose or to be entitled to any right or privilege, and falsely represents himself to be the person named in the document, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be dealt with according to the law of the country concerned. [Margin: Post examination investigating committee Constitution of.] 28. 1. Whether or not a prosecution is brought under section 27, the Board may within 60 days after the conclusion of an examination in any case where information reached the Board subsequent to that examination that a candidate at that examination had access to or used live questions or question papers without lawful authority so to do, constitute a committee to investigate the matter. 2. Every committee set up in pursuance of subsection (1) above shall consist of— (a) A Chairman who shall be a legal practitioner of not less than seven years standing and (b) Two other persons, each being a person with wide experience in Public Health Matters. 3. The Committee shall at the conclusion of its investigation make report to the Examiners Committee of the Board containing such recommendations as to which of the penalties set out in section 27 above and to be imposed by the Board or otherwise and subject to the No. 6 West Africa Health Examination Board 1986 A51 approval of the Board the Examiners Committee shall take such action thereon (including the cancellation of examination results in respect of, or any certificate to whom subsection (1) above applies) as it thinks appropriate in the circumstances.