Section 2: Functions of the Council

The functions of the Council shall be to-(a) review and consider annually the examinations to be held in West Africa in the public interest;
(b) conduct such examinations as the Council may think appropriate pursuant to this Act and to award certificates and diplomas on the results of examinations so conducted;
(c) consider the advisability of inviting and if thought fit to invite any other examining body to conduct examinations in West Africa and to-
(i) award certificates and diplomas on the results of such examinations;
(ii) advise any body so invited on such adaptations of their examinations as the Council may think necessary for the purposes of this Act; and
(iii) assist any body so invited in the conduct of such examinations in West Africa,
so however that no examinations having a lower standard than any examination of equal status conducted pursuant to this Act shall be conducted in West Africa by any such body.