ADVERTISING REGULATORY COUNCIL OF NIGERIA ACT, 2022

Section 22: Preparation and maintenance of register.

2022Section 22 of 64Federal Republic of Nigeria

(1) The Director-General shall prepare and maintain, in accordance with rules made by the Council under this section, a register of the names, addresses, approved qualifications and such other particulars as may be specified of all persons who are entitled in accordance with the provisions of this Act to be registered as fellows, full members, associates or students of the profession and who apply in the specified manner to be so registered.
(2) Subject to the provisions of this section, the Council shall make rules with respect to the form of keeping of the register and the making of entries in it, and in particular-
(a) regulate the making of applications for registration and providing for the evidence to be produced in support of applications ;
(b) provide for the notification to the Director-General by the person towhom any registered particulars relate, of any change in those particulars ;
(c) authorise a registered person to have any qualification which is, in relation to his profession, an approved qualification or an accepted qualification under section 21 (2) of this Act, registered in relation to his name in addition to or, as he may elect in substitution for any other qualifications so registered ;
(d) specifying anything not specified under this section ; and
(e) specifying the fees to be paid to the Council in respect of the entry of names on the register and authorising the Director-General to refuse to enter a name on the register until any fees specified for entry has been paid.
(3) The Director-General shall-
(a) correct, in accordance with the directives of the Governing Council, any entry in the register which the Governing Council directs him to correct as being in the opinion of the Governing Council an entry which was incorrectly made ;
(b) make any necessary alterations to the registered particulars or registered persons ; and
(c) remove from the register the name of any registered person who has died, become insane or committed an act of gross misconduct.
(4) Where the Director-General-
(a) send by post to any registered person a registered letter addressed to him at his address on the register enquiring if the registered particulars relating to him are correct and receives no reply to that letter within three months from the date of posting it ; and
(b) upon the expiration of the period sends in like manner to the persons in question a second letter and receives no reply to that letter within three months from the date of posting,the Director-General may remove the particulars relating to the person inquestion from the register, provided that the Governing Council may direct the
Director-General to restore to the register any particulars removed therefromunder this subsection.
(5) The Director-General shall also prepare and maintain, in accordance with rules made by the Governing Council under this section, a register of the names, addresses, conditions of license and such other particulars as may be
necessary of all organisations or persons who are licensed to practice under any of the categories provided under section 21 and additional categories created under any subsidiary legislation made under this Act, and the provisions of this section and section 10 shall apply to this subsection with such modifications as are necessary.

Cite this section

Section 22, ADVERTISING REGULATORY COUNCIL OF NIGERIA ACT, 2022 (2022).

https://repo.podus.ai/laws/advertising-regulatory-council-of-nigeria-act-2022/section/22/