Section 6: Registration as engineers

(1) Subject to section 16 and to rules made under section 4 (4) of this Act, a person shall be entitled to be fully registered under this Act if-
(a) he has attended a course of training approved by the Council under the next following section;
(b) the course was conducted at an institution so approved, or partly at one such institution and partly at another or others;
(c) he holds a qualification so approved; and
(d) he holds a certificate of experience issued in pursuance of section 9 of this Act; and
(e) he has completed a minimum of two years' approved post-graduate training and has passed or is exempted from professional interview;
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(f) in the case of a craftsman, he has completed a minimum of two years' working experience in his trade and submits an acceptable certificate of experience;
[1992 No. 27.]
(g) he has completed his second year of industrial pupillage in an approved establishment.
[1992 No. 27.]
(2) Subject as aforesaid, a person shall also be entitled to be fully registered under this Act if he satisfies the Council-
(a) that he is of good character;
(b) that he holds a qualification granted outside Nigeria and for the time being accepted by the Council for the purposes of this subsection as respects the engineering profession;
(c) that in the country in which the qualification was granted he was under no legal disability in the practice of engineering; and
(d) if the Council so requires, that he has had sufficient practical engineering experience,
and the Council shall from time to time publish in the Federal Gazette particulars of the qualifications for the time being accepted as aforesaid.
(3) Subject as aforesaid, a person shall be entitled to be provisionally registered under this Act in the cases specified in section 12 of this Act.