Section 13. Registration Without Examination. —

A certificate of registration for environmental planners shall be issued to any applicant by the Board first constituted, without requiring the passing of the examination herein prescribed: Provided, That he registers within one (1) year after the constitution of the said Board and that he possesses the following qualifications:

1. He must be at least twenty-one (21) years of age;

2. He must be a Filipino citizen;

3. He must be currently involved in the practice of environmental planning; and

4. He must have any of the following academic and/or training background or experience:

   1. Masteral degree in environmental planning, city and regional planning, or town and country planning or its equivalent from a school recognized by the government, plus one (1) year of environmental planning experience;

   2. Masteral degree in a field of discipline related to planning such as architecture, civil engineering, geography, economics, public administration, or sociology, plus two (2) years of environmental planning experience acceptable by the Board;

   3. Masteral degree in a field of discipline related to planning, other than those listed in paragraph (2) above, plus two (2) years of environmental planning experience, and either of the following additional qualifications:

      1. 1. Completion of at least eighteen (18) units of graduate course work in environmental planning; or

      2. 2. Completion of a training program or programs the total number of hours of which is equivalent to the number of graduate course work in environmental planning.

   4. Bachelor's degree in environmental planning, city and regional planning, or town and country planning from a school or institution recognized by the Government, plus three (3) years of environmental planning experience acceptable by the Board;

   5. Bachelor's degree in a field of discipline related to planning such as architecture, civil engineering, geography, economics, public administration, or sociology, plus four (4) years of environmental planning experience acceptable by the Board;

   6. Bachelor's degree in a field of discipline related to planning, other than those listed in paragraph (5) above, plus eighteen (18) graduate units in planning and three (3) years of environmental planning experience acceptable by the Board; or

   7. Civil service eligibility in planning or city planning, plus five (5) years of environmental planning experience.