Section 2: 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, fully registered or qualified for registration as a town planner under this Act and has been engaged in the practice of the profession for not less than five years.
(2) Subject to the following provisions of this section, a person who is a member of the Council otherwise than by virtue of paragraphs (a) and (b) of section 1 (3) of this Act, shall hold office for a period of three years from the date of his appointment.
(3) The office of a member of the Council shall become vacant if-
(a) he becomes bankrupt or makes arrangements with his creditors;
(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.
(4) Any member of the Council holding office otherwise than by virtue of paragraphs (a) and (b) of section 1 (3) of this Act may, by notice in writing to the Minister, resign his office.
(5) A person who has ceased to be a member of the Council (except in the manner provided for in subsection (3) of this section) shall be eligible for re-appointment:
Provided that no person shall hold office as President of the Council for more than two consecutive terms.
(6) 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 practicable appoint, or as the case may be, elect a person to fill the vacancy for the residue of the term aforesaid so however that (without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph (b) of section 1 (3) of this Act) the foregoing provisions of this subsection shall not apply where a person holding office as a member of the Council in pursuance of that paragraph has ceased to hold office at a time when the residue of his term does not exceed one year.
(7) The power of appointing a person as President of the Council shall-
(a) during the period of three years beginning with the date when this subsection comes into force, be exercisable by the President; and
(b) after the expiration of that period, be exercisable by the Council; and where an existing member of the Council is appointed President, his office shall become vacant and his term of office as President shall begin on the date of his appointment as President.