Section 10: Registration of public relations practitioners

(1) Subject to section 11 of this Act, and to rules made under section 8 of this Act, a person shall be entitled to be registered as a public relations practitioner if-
(a) he passes the qualifying examination accepted by the Institute under this Act and completes the practical training prescribed by the Council, from time to time ; or
(b) he holds a qualification granted outside Nigeria and for the time being accepted by the Institute and is by law entitled to practice for all purposes as a public relations practitioner in the country in which the qualification was granted and, if the Council so requires, he satisfies the Council that he has had sufficient experience as a public relations practitioner; or
(c) he holds at least one of the qualifications prescribed in Schedule 4 to this Act for the purpose of registration on the register and has complied with the other requirements prescribed under section 8 (4) of this Act.
(2) Subject to section 11 of this Act and to rules made under section 8 of this Act, a person shall also be entitled to be registered as a public relations practitioner, if he satisfies the Council that immediately before the commencement of this Act, he had had not less than five years' experience as a public relations executive of a company registered under the Companies Act 1968.
(3) An applicant for registration shall, in addition to evidence of qualification, satisfy the Council that he
(a) is of good character ;
(b) has attained the age of twenty-one years; and
(c) has not been convicted in Nigeria or elsewhere of an offence involving fraud or dishonesty.
(4) The Council may in its sole discretion provisionally accept a qualification produced in respect of an application for registration under this section, or direct that the application be renewed within such period as may be specified in the direction.
(5) Any entry directed to be made in the register under subsection (4) of this section shall show that registration is provisional and no entry so made shall be converted to full registration without the consent of the Council signified in writing in that behalf.
(6) Subject to Schedule 4 to this Act, the Council shall, from time to time, publish in the Gazette particulars of other qualifications accepted by the Council for registration as a public relations practitioner under this section.