Section 8: Persons entitled to registration under special circumstances.

(1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, where the Council is satisfied that reciprocal arrangements are in existence between Nigeria and any other country whereby citizens or nationals of that country and those of Nigeria are entitled to practise in that other country as town planners on the same or nearly similar terms and conditions, a national or citizen of that other country shall, if resident in Nigeria immediately before the date of his application for registration and on due compliance with any other requirements of the Council, be entitled to be registered as a town planner under this Act.
(2) Where any person not a citizen of Nigeria would, but for this subsection, be required to satisfy the Council as to reciprocal arrangements made and that person is, on or after the commencement of this Act, employed in Nigeria as a town planner-
(a) under any foreign technical assistance or foreign technical aid programme;
(b) under a contract of service with the Government of the Federation or any State thereof; or
(c) under a contract of service with a fully registered and practising town planner who is a citizen of Nigeria, the Council shall, after receipt by it of an application for registration duly made by the person so employed, and upon payment of the prescribed fee but without requiring to be satisfied as to any such reciprocal arrangements and residential qualification, direct registration of the person concerned under this Act while so employed but not otherwise.