Registration of specialist professional engineers
15A.—(1)  A registered professional engineer who —
(a)has sat and passed such examination as may be prescribed by the Board, or holds such postgraduate degrees or qualifications or has gained such special knowledge in a specialised branch of engineering as may be approved by the Board;
(b)has such experience in that specialised branch of engineering as may be required by the Board; and
(c)has fulfilled such further conditions as may be specified by the Board,
may apply to the Board to be registered as a specialist professional engineer.
(2)  The Board may, with the approval of the Minister, make regulations for all or any of the following purposes:
(a)providing for the registration of specialists in any specialised branch of engineering;
(b)regulating the recording in, removal from, and restoration to the register of specialist professional engineers of the names, particulars and qualifications of persons so registered;
(c)providing for appeals by registered professional engineers against any refusal of the Board to register them in the register of specialist professional engineers or to restore their names to that register or against any decision of the Board to remove their names from that register;
(d)prescribing the fees payable in respect of —
(i)any application for registration as a specialist professional engineer;
(ii)any such registration as a specialist professional engineer;
(iii)any restoration of names to the register of specialist professional engineers; and
(iv)any appeal.
(3)  The Registrar shall, from time to time, prepare and publish in the Gazette a list of the names, addresses and qualifications of all specialist professional engineers.
[27/2005 wef 01/12/2005]