18. Registration of foreign engineers

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other provisions of this Act, a foreign engineering practitioner shall apply for temporary registration if he satisfies the Council that he possesses the prescribed qualifications and expertise and of his physical presence in

The Council may subject to the conditions imposed by the Council, upon payment of a prescribed fee issue a temporary registration to a foreign engineering practitioner for a period of four months. Such registration shall be renewed at the end of that period on application made in that behalf.