Section 10: Registration as optometrist or dispensing optician

(1) Subject to section 28 of this Act and to rules made under subsection (2) of section 8 of this Act, a person shall be entitled to be registered under this Act and being so registered to receive a registration certificate if-
(a) he has attended a course of training approved by the Board under section 18 of this Act;
(b) the course was conducted at an institution so approved or partly at one such institution and partly at another;
(c) he holds at least one of the qualifications prescribed in the Third Schedule to this Act for the purpose of registration on a particular register and has complied with the other requirements prescribed under subsection (2) of section 8 of this Act;
(d) he holds a certificate of experience issued in pursuance of section 21 of this Act;
(e) he is of good character; and
(f) he thereafter pays any prescribed fees.
(2) Subject as aforesaid, a person shall also be entitled to be registered under this Act and being so registered to receive a registration certificate if he satisfies the Board that-
(a) he holds a qualification granted outside Nigeria for the time being accepted by the Board for the purposes of this subsection as respects the profession;
(b) in the country in which the qualification was granted he was under no legal disability in the practice of the profession;
(c) he holds a certificate of experience issued in pursuance of section 21 of this Act;
(d) he is of good character; and
(e) he thereafter pays any prescribed fee.
(3) The Board shall, from time to time, publish in the Federal Gazette particulars of the qualifications for the time being accepted as aforesaid.
(4) The qualifications specified in the Third Schedule to this Act are those accepted for the time being by the Board as the minimum qualifications for the purpose of registration on the relevant register established under section 8 of this Act.
(5) Subject as aforesaid, a person shall be entitled to be temporarily registered under this Act in the cases specified in section 11 of this Act.