Section 8: Preparation and maintenance of the register.

(1) The Registrar shall prepare and maintain in accordance with rules made by the Council under this section, a register of the names, addresses and approved qualifications, and of such other particulars as may be specified by the Council, of all persons who are entitled in accordance with the provisions of this Act to be registered as builders and who apply in the specified manner to be so registered.
(2) The register shall consist of three parts-
(a) one part for fully registered persons;
(b) one part for provisionally registered persons; and
(c) one part for temporarily registered persons.
(3) Subject to the following provisions of this section, the Council shall make rules with respect to the form and keeping of the register and the making of entries, and in particular the Council shall make rules-
(a) regulating the making of applications for registration and providing for the evidence to be produced in support of any such application;
(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, in relation to the profession, whether an approved qualification or an accepted qualification for the purpose of section 10 (2) (a) of this Act registered in relation to his name in addition to or, as he may elect, in substitution for any other qualification so registered;
(d) specifying the fees to be paid to the Council in respect of the entry of names on the register and authorising the Registrar to refuse to enter a name in the 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.
(4) Rules made for the purposes of paragraph (d) of subsection (3) of this section shall not come into force until they are confirmed by the Minister.
(5) The Registrar shall-
(a) correct, in accordance with the Council's directions, any entry in the register which the Council directs him to correct as being in the Council's opinion an entry which was incorrectly made;
(b) make, from time to time, any necessary alterations to the registered particulars of registered persons;
(c) remove from the part of the register which relates to provisionally or temporarily registered person all particulars relating to a person registered in the part of the register for fully registered persons or relating to persons ceasing for any reasons to be entitled to be so provisionally or temporarily registered; and
(d) remove from the register the name of any registered person who has died.
(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; but the Council may direct the Registrar to restore to the appropriate part of the register any particulars removed therefrom under this subsection.