Section 17: Provisional registration of persons not citizens of Nigeria

(1) Where a person satisfies the Council-
(a) that he has been selected for employment for a specified period in a capacity in which a person fully registered as an engineer under this Act would normally be employed and that he is or intends to be in Nigeria temporarily for the purposes of serving for that period in the employment in question;
(b) that he holds, or has passed examinations necessary for obtaining some qualification granted outside Nigeria, which is for the time being accepted by the Council for the purposes of this section as respects the capacity in which, if employed, he is to serve,
the Council may, if it thinks fit, give a direction that he shall be temporarily registered as an engineer.
(2) The temporary registration of a person shall continue only while he is in such employment as is mentioned in subsection (1)(a) of this section and shall cease-
(a) on the termination of the period of employment specified to the Council under that subsection; or
(b) on the termination of the said employment before the end of that period,
whichever occurs first:
Provided that nothing in this subsection shall preclude the Council from giving a further direction under subsection (1) of this section in respect of a specified period whose commencement coincides with the termination of another such period.
(3) A person who is temporarily registered shall, in relation to his employment as mentioned in subsection (1)(a) of this section, and to things done or omitted in the course of that employment, be deemed to be fully registered, but in relation to all other matters he shall be treated as not so registered.
(4) In case of doubt as to whether a person's employment has been terminated, the decision of the Council shall be conclusive for the purposes of subsection (2) of this section.
(5) Nothing in this section shall have effect to exempt any person provisionally registered as an engineer pursuant to this section from payment of an annual practising fee.
(6) The Registrar, as directed from time to time by the Council, shall remove from the register the name of any person ceasing to be entitled to the benefit of this section