Section 3: Qualifications and tenure of office of members

(1)
A person shall not be appointed a member of the Council unless he is a citizen of Nigeria and is fully registered or qualified for registration as a surveyor under this Act and has been engaged in the practice of the profession for not less than five years.
(2)
The president shall hold office for a period of three years and shall be eligible for re-appointment for one further period of three years and thereafter he shall no longer be eligible for re-appointment.
(3) Subject to the following provisions of this section, a person who is a member of the Council, other than as an ex-officio member, shall hold office for a period of three years.
(4) The office of a member of the Council shall become vacant if-
(a) he becomes bankrupt or makes arrangements with his creditors; or
(b) he is as a result of physical or mental illness unable to discharge his functions as a member of the Council; or
(c) he is convicted of an offence involving dishonesty, fraud or moral turpitude.
(5) Any member of the Council holding office otherwise than by virtue of paragraphs (b) and (c) of subsection (1) of section 2 of this Act may, by notice to the Minister, resign his office.
(6) A person who has ceased to be a member of the Council (except in the manner provided in subsection (3) of this section) shall be eligible for re-appointment.
(7)
Where a member of the Council ceases to hold office before the date when his term of office would have expired by the effluxion of time, the body or person by whom he was appointed or elected shall, as soon as may be, appoint, or as the case may be, elect a person to fill the vacancy for the residue of the term aforesaid, so however that the foregoing provisions of this subsection shall not apply where a person holding office as a member of the Council has ceased to hold office at a time when the residue of his term does not exceed one year.