Section 1: Establishment of the Council for the Registration of Engineering in Nigeria

(1) There shall be established on the coming into force of this Act, a body to be known as the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (hereafter in this Act referred to as "the Council") which shall be a body corporate by the name aforesaid and be charged with the general duty of-
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(a) determining who are engineers for the purposes of this Act;
(b) determining what standards of knowledge and skill are to be attained by persons seeking to become registered as engineers and raising those standards from time to time as circumstances may permit;
(c) securing, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, the establishment and maintenance of a register of persons entitled to practise as registered engineers and the publication from time to time of lists of those persons;
(d) regulating and controlling the practice of the engineering profession in all its aspects and ramifications;
(e) performing the other functions conferred on the Council by this Act.
(2) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Council shall consist of the following members from the register of engineers, that is-
(a) one person who shall be elected by the Council as the President;
(b) six persons elected to represent the Nigerian Society of Engineers in the manner provided by the constitution of the Society;
(c) four persons appointed to represent the universities with faculties of engineering in rotation;
(d) one person appointed to represent the polytechnics in rotation;
(e) one person appointed to represent technical colleges in rotation;
(f) six persons appointed to represent the States of the Federation in rotation;
(g) four persons to be nominated by the Minister; and
(h) one person to represent each of the following cadres to be appointed from their respective registers, that is-
(i) registered engineering technologists;
(ii) registered engineering technicians;
(iii) registered engineering craftsmen.
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(3) The provisions of the First Schedule to this Act shall have effect with respect to the qualification and tenure of office of members of the Council, powers and procedure of the Council and the other matters there mentioned
(4) Regulations may provide for increasing or reducing the membership of the Council, and may make such consequential amendments of paragraph I of the First Schedule to this Act as the Minister considers expedient in consequence of the increase or reduction.
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