Section 19: Interpretation, etc.

(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-
"approved" means for the time being approved under section 9 of this Act;
"approved quantity surveyor qualification" means a qualification which is approved in respect of the quantity surveying profession;
"Board" means the Quantity Surveyors Registration Board of Nigeria established by section 1 of this Act;
''Disciplinary Committee" has the meaning assigned to it by section 12 (1) of this Act;
"Minister" means the Minister charged with the general responsibility for matters relating to the quantity surveying profession;
"Panel" has the meaning assigned to it by section 12 (3) of this Act;
"prescribed" means prescribed by regulations made under this Act;
"public service" means public service of the Federation or of a State as defined in section 318 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999;
"register" means the register maintained under this Act; and
"registered" shall be construed accordingly;
"registrar" means the registrar appointed in pursuance of section 5 of this Act;
"regulations" means regulations made by the Minister.
(2) For the purposes of this Act-
(a) a person is fully registered if his name is for the time being entered in the part of the register maintained in respect of fully registered persons; and
(b) a person is temporarily registered if his name is for the time being entered in the other part of that register,
and "fully registered" and ''temporarily registered" shall be construed in accordance with paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subsection.
(3) Any approval, consent, direction, notice, observation, report, representation or request authorised or required to be given or made by or under this Act shall be in writing and may, without prejudice to any other method of service but subject to the provisions of rules made under paragraph 2 of the Second Schedule to this Act, be served by post.