Section 5: Preparation and maintenance of the registers.

1
It shall be the duty of the Council to appoint as the Registrar for the purposes of this Act, a fit and proper person having not less than ten years' experience as a fully registered Architect.
[1990 No. 43.]
2 It shall be the duty of the Registrar to prepare and maintain in accordance with rules made by the Council under this section-
a registers of the names, addresses and 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 architects and who apply in the specified manner to be so registered;
b
a register with particulars of architectural firms eligible to practise under the provisions of this Act.
[1990 No. 43.]
3 The register of architects (in this Act referred to as "the register") shall consist of two parts of which one shall be in respect of fully registered persons entitled to practise as principals and the other in respect of provisionally registered persons.
4 Subject to the following provisions of this section, the Council shall make rules with respect to form and keeping of the registers and the making of entries therein, and in particular-
a regulating the making of applications for registration and providing for the evidence to be produced in support of applications;
b providing for the notification to the Registrar, by the person to whom any registered particulars relate, of any change in those particulars;
c authorising a registered person to have any qualification which is registered in relation to his name in addition to or, as he may elect, in substitution for any other qualifications so registered;
d specifying the fees to be paid to the Council in respect of the entry of names on the registers and authorising the Registrar to refuse to enter a name on a register until any fee specified for the entry has been paid;
e specifying anything falling to be specified under the foregoing provisions of this section,
but rules made for the purposes of paragraph (d) of this subsection shall not come into force until they are confirmed by order of the Minister.
5 It shall be the duty of the Registrar-
a to correct, in accordance with the Council's directions, any entry in a register which the Council directs him to correct as being in the Council's opinion an entry which was incorrectly made;
b to make from time to time any necessary alterations to the registered particulars of registered persons;
c to remove from the part of the register of architects which relates to provisionally registered persons, all particulars relating to a person registered in the other part of that register; and
d to remove from the relevant part of the register the name of any registered person who has died, or as the case may be, has ceased to be entitled to be provisionally registered.
6 If the Registrar-
a sends by post to any registered person, a registered letter addressed to him at his address on the register, enquiring whether the registered particulars relating to him are correct and receives no reply to the letter within the period of six months from the date of posting it; and
b upon the expiration of that period, sends in like manner to the person in question a second similar letter and receives no reply to that letter within three months from the date of posting it,
the Registrar may, remove the particulars relating to the person in question from the relevant part of the register; and the Council may direct the Registrar to restore to the appropriate part of the register any particulars removed therefrom under this subsection.