Section 13: Practitioners for limited registration.

(1) Where a person satisfies the Council-
(a) that he has been selected for employment for a specified period in an approved hospital or as the case may be, in any other approved institution in Nigeria in the capacity of a practitioner of medicine, surgery, dental surgery or midwifery, and that he is or intends to be in Nigeria for a limited period for the purposes of serving for that period in the employment in question; and
(b) that he has passed the assessment examination, if any, of the Council following some qualifications granted outside Nigeria which is for the time being accepted by the Council for the purposes of this section as respect the capacity in which, if employed, he is to serve, the Council may, if it thinks fit, give a direction that he shall be registered for a limited period as a medical practitioner or as a dental surgeon, as the case may be.
(2) The registration of a person for a limited period 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 first occurs.
(3) Nothing in subsection (2) of this section 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.
(4) A person registered by virtue of the provisions of this section shall, in relation to his employment as mentioned in subsection (1) (a) of this section, and to things done or omitted to be done 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.
(5) No person with limited registration shall be allowed either to open or manage on his own a private health institution.
(6) In the 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.