Registration as mechanical plant engineer without examination.
Section 25
SEC. 25. Registration as mechanical plant engineer without examination. — No examination shall be required of any person who shall, with his application for registration as mechanical plant engineer, submitted to the Board within one year from the date this Act becomes effective, present evidence or sufficient proof satisfactory to the Board, showing that, on the date of the approval of this Act, he had any of the following qualifications: (a) Had a specific record of ten years or more of active practice in mechanical engineering work of a character indicating that the applicant is competent to take charge of the construction, erection, installation, alteration, operation and management of mechanical works, projects or plants, and has the first three qualifications specified under section seventeen of this Act; or (b) He is actually employed at the approval of this Act in a regularly organized mechanical works, project or plant of more than two hundred horsepower capacity and has rendered satisfactory supervisory services without any serious accident as certified by his employer: Provided, however, That his registration will be valid only for the works, plant or project where he is actually employed; or (c) Had passed a civil service examination for senior mechanical engineer or is a mechanical engineer duly licensed by the Board of Examiners for Mechanical Engineers under Act Numbered Two thousand nine hundred and eighty-five of the Philippine Legislature of the year nineteen hundred and twenty-one, as amended, and has a specific record of four years or more of active practice in mechanical engineering work of such character indicating to the satisfaction of the Board, that the applicant is competent to take charge of the construction, erection, installation, alteration, operation and management of mechanical works, projects or plants, and to render engineering service in connection with the manufacture, sale, supply or distribution of mechanical equipment, machinery or processes.