Section 11: Certificate of experience.

(1) A person who, after obtaining an approved medical or dental qualification, satisfies the conditions specified in subsection (2) of this section shall be entitled to receive free of charge a certificate of experience in the prescribed form.
(2) The conditions which a person must satisfy under subsection (1) of this section are-
(a) he must have been employed for the prescribed period at a recognised institution in Nigeria with a view to obtaining a certificate of experience and have resided throughout that period either in the institution or near to it in accordance with requirements in that behalf specified in the terms of his employment;
(b) he must have acquired during his employment practical experience under the personal supervision and guidance of one or more fully registered medical practitioners in the practice of surgery, midwifery, medicine or dental surgery, as the case may be, for such periods as may be prescribed in relation to each of those subjects respectively; and
(c) the manner in which he carried out the duties of his employment and his conduct during the period of his employment must have been satisfactory.
(3) Any period spent under subsection (2) of this section by a person during his employment in acquiring experience of the techniques for safeguarding and improving the health of children or public health or of the activities carried on in a recognised health centre shall be calculated for the purposes of that subsection as periods in the practice of medicine.
(4) It shall be the duty of the person in charge of a recognised institution at which a person is employed with a view to obtaining a certificate of experience to ensure that the last-mentioned person is afforded proper opportunities of acquiring the practical experience required for the purposes of subsection (2) of this section.
(5) Where after having been employed as mentioned in paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of this section at any institution, a person is refused a certificate of experience he shall be entitled to-
(a) receive from the person in charge of the institution particulars in writing of the grounds of the refusal; and
(b) appeal against 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 after duly considering any such appeal the committee shall either dismiss the appeal or issue the certificate of experience in question or give such other directive in the matter as it considers just.
(6) The Council may make regulations to provide for the issuance of certificate of experience in respect of employment at institutions outside of Nigeria.
(7) In this section and in section 12 of this Act, "recognised" means recognised for the time being for the purposes of those sections by order of the Council.