Section 19: Miscellaneous supplementary provisions

(1) Subject to the following provisions of this section, a person shall not hold an appointment requiring status as a registered engineer under this Act in the public service of the Federation or State or in the armed forces of the Federation, unless he is an engineer registered under this Act or is otherwise exempted.
(2) A registered engineer under this Act shall, but to the extent only of his particular qualifications, be entitled to practise as a registered engineer throughout the Federation.
(3) It shall be the duty of any person in charge of any university in the Federation, having attached thereto a faculty of engineering, at which there is held a course of training intended for persons who are seeking to become registered engineers under this Act, to furnish to the Registrar, not later than the thirty-first day of March in every year, a list of the names, and of such other particulars as the Council may by order specify, of all persons who attended any such course at the institution in question at any time during the preceding year.
(4) In this section, ''public service" includes service as a registered engineer in or with any institution or corporation (Federal or State) or State-owned company.