Section 18: Publication of register and list of corrections

(1)
It shall be the duty of the executive secretary to maintain a register of accredited journalists compiled by the Council in collaboration with the Nigeria Union of Journalists and the Nigerian Guild of Editors.
[1999 No. 60.]
(2)
The register referred to in subsection (1) of this section shall (without prejudice to any other mode of proof) be admissible in any proceedings as evidence that any person specified in the document or the documents read together is registered or was so registered and that any person not so specified was not registered.
[1999 No. 60.]
(3)
Where in accordance with subsection (2) of this section a person is in any proceedings shown to have been or not to have been so registered at a particular date with the Council he shall, unless the contrary is proved, be taken for the purposes of those proceedings as having at all material times thereafter continued to be or not be so registered.
[1999 No. 60.]