Certificates.
Section 4
SEC. 4. Certificates.—The Board of Examiners shall issue certificates of registration as opticians to any person twenty-one years of age and over, of good habits and morals, who has an optician's diploma issued by a duly constituted, accredited, and reputable university, academy, college, school or institution, recognized as such by the Government or the State in which established, and who passes a satisfactory examination before the Board: Provided, That any person who is practising the optical profession in the Philippine Islands at the time of the approval of this Act, may receive a certificate of registration as optician without examination if within the period of ninety days he exhibits to the Board a certificate as optician issued by a duly constituted, accredited, and reputable university, academy, college, school or institution, recognized as such by the Government or the state in which established, upon payment of the proper fees: Provided, further, That any person who, at the time of the approval of this Act, has been practising the optical profession for a period of not less than one year, with an establishment lawfully opened, but lacks the proper diploma, may, within one year from and after the approval of this Act, secure a certificate as optician upon passing a practical examination by means of the trial case.