Section 13: Certificate of experience

(1)
Any person who, having qualified as a librarian by examination after the commencement of this Act or within two years before its commencement, as the case may be, satisfies the conditions specified in subsection (2) of this section, may apply for and be entitled to receive, free of charge, a certificate of professional competence from the person mentioned in subsection (2) of this section, entitling him to be fully registered as a librarian under this Act and such certificate shall, when received by the person, be filed with his application for full registration.
(2) The conditions referred to in subsection (1) of this section are that-
(a) he shall have served his time for the prescribed period in Nigeria in an approved library with a view to obtaining a certificate of experience;
(b) he shall, during his service in the approved library, have acquired practical experience under the personal supervision and guidance of at least one or more registered librarians for such period as may be prescribed; and
(c) the manner in which he carried out the duties in the approved office and his conduct shall have been satisfactory.
(3) It shall be the duty of the employer, being a librarian supervising the work of a person employed with a view to obtaining a certificate of experience, to ensure that a
person so employed is afforded proper opportunities of acquiring the practical experience required for the purposes of paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of this section.
(4) Where, after having completed the prescribed period, a person affected applies for and is refused a certificate of experience he shall be entitled-
(a) to receive from his employer particulars in writing of the grounds of the refusal; and
(b) to appeal from the refusal to a committee of the Council in accordance with rules made by the Council in that behalf (including rules as to the time within which appeals are to be brought). and on any such appeal, the committee may either dismiss the appeal or itself issue the certificate of experience in question or give such other direction in the matter, as it considers just.