TOWN PLANNERS (REGISTRATION, ECT.) ACT

Section 11: Certificate of experience.

1988Section 11 of 19Federal Republic of Nigeria

(1) Any person who, having qualified as a town planner by examination after the commencement of this Act or not earlier than two years before its commencement, as the case may be, satisfies the conditions mentioned in subsection (2) of this section, may apply for and shall be entitled to receive free of charge a certificate of experience in the prescribed form from the person mentioned in subsection (2) of this section, entitling him to be fully registered as a town planner under this Act and such certificate shall, when received by the person provisionally registered, be filed with his application for full registration.
(2) The conditions aforesaid are that-
(a) he shall during his employment after qualification as aforesaid, have acquired practical experience under the personal supervision and guidance of at least one fully registered town planner for a period of two years; and
(b) the manner in which he carried out the duties of his employment and his conduct during the period of his employment shall have been satisfactory.
(3) It shall be the duty of the employer, being a fully registered town planner supervising the work of a person employed with a view to obtaining a certificate of experience, to secure that a person so employed is afforded proper opportunities of acquiring the practical experience required for the purposes of paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of this section.
(4) Where, after having completed the period mentioned in paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of this section, a person affected applies for and is refused a certificate of experience, he shall be entitled-
(a) to receive from his employer aforesaid particulars in writing of the grounds of the refusal; and
(b) to appeal from the refusal to a committee of the Council in accordance with rules made by the Council in that behalf (including rules as to the time within which appeals are to be brought), and on any such appeal the committee may either dismiss the appeal or itself issue the certificate of experience in question or give such other direction as it considers just.

Cite this section

Section 11, TOWN PLANNERS (REGISTRATION, ECT.) ACT (1988).

https://repo.podus.ai/laws/town-planners-registration-ect-act/section/11/