Section 29Sec./Art. 29

Revocation or Suspension of the Certificate of Registration and Professional Identification Card and Cancellation of Temporary/Special Permit. The Board shall have the power, upon notice and hearing, to revoke or suspend the certificate of registration and professional identification card of a registered metallurgical engineer or to cancel a temporary/ special permit granted to a foreign metallurgical engineer for violation of any of the grounds or causes provided in Section 28 of this Act, except paragraph (c) thereof, and for any of the following:

(a) Violation of a provision of this Act, its IRR, Code of Ethics and Code of Professional and Technical Standards for the practice of metallurgical engineering;

(b) Perpetration or use of fraud in obtaining ones certificate of registration, professional identification card or temporary/special permit;

(c) Gross incompetence, negligence or ignorance resulting to death, injury or damage;

(d) Any act of misrepresentation in connection with an alleged performance of metallurgical engineering activities;

(e) Acts inimical to the metallurgical engineering profession;

(f) Gross immorality;

(g) Conviction by final judgment of any act involving moral turpitude;

(h) Aiding or abetting the illegal practice of a nonregistered and non-licensed metallurgical engineer by allowing the use of ones certificate of registration, professional identification card or temporary/special permit;

(i) Illegal practice of the profession during the suspension from the practice thereof; and

(j) Addiction to drugs or alcohol impairing the ability to practice the profession, or a declaration by a court of competent jurisdiction that the registrant is of unsound mind.

The Board shall periodically evaluate the aforementioned grounds and revise, exclude or add new ones as the need arises subject to the approval by the Commission.

Any person, firm or association may file charges in accordance with the provision of this section against any registrant, or the Board may investigate violation of any of the abovementioned causes. An affidavit-complaint shall be filed together with the affidavits of witnesses and other documentary evidence with the Board through the Legal and Investigation Office. The Board may motu proprio conduct an investigation which shall be embodied in a formal charge to be signed by at least a majority of the members of the Board. The rules on administrative investigation issued by the Commission shall govern the hearing or investigation subject to applicable provisions of this Act, Republic Act No. 8981 and the Rules of Court.