Section 18: Special provisions as to social workers trained outside Nigeria.

(1) Where a person has completed a course of training outside Nigeria, as a social worker which is not acceptable to the Council, without further proof of competency, the Council may require that person to undergo additional training in social work in an approved institution or under any scheme of training in Nigeria approved by the Council and upon completion of the prescribed further training to the satisfaction of the Council, the person may apply for registration for licensing examination in the prescribed level and be registered accordingly in the appropriate register.
(2) Where a person who is not a Nigerian or an expatriate satisfies the Council that he-
(a) has been selected for employment for period of at least six months in a capacity in which a registered person under this Act would normally be employed and that he is or intends to be in Nigeria temporarily for the purpose of serving for that period in the employment in question,
(b) holds or has passed examinations necessary for obtaining some qualifications granted outside Nigeria which is for the time being accepted by the Council for the purpose of this Act as regards the capacity in which, if employed he is to serve, and
(c) pays the fees prescribed for registration,the Council may, if it deems fit, direct that he shall be temporarily registered and subject to annual renewal, maintain a license for the period of the employment.
(3) The temporary registration of a person shall continue only while he is in that employment mentioned under subsection (2) (a) and shall cease on the termination of the -
(a) period of employment specified to the Council under that subsection; or
(b) employment before the end of that period, whichever occurs first.
(4) Nothing in subsection (3) shall preclude the Council from giving a further direction under subsection (2) in respect of a specific period, the commencement of which coincides with the termination of another period.