Section 8: Appointment of Registrar, etc, and preparation of the register.

(1) The Council shall appoint a fit and proper person to be the Registrar for the purposes of this Act.
(2) The Registrar shall, in addition to his other functions under this Act, be the Secretary to the Council and shall on the instructions of the President of the Institute or any committee of the Council convene and keep minutes of the proceedings at all meetings of the Council and committees thereof, as the case may be.
(3) The Council may appoint such other persons to be employees of the Institute as the Council may determine to assist the Registrar in the exercise of his functions under this Act.
(4) It shall be the duty of the Registrar to prepare and maintain, in accordance with rules made by the Council, a register of the names, addresses, approved qualifications, and of such other qualifications and particulars, as may be specified in the rules, of all persons who are entitled in accordance with the provisions of this Act, to be enrolled as fellows, including honorary fellows, associates, including honorary associates, and other members who, in the manner prescribed by such rules, apply to be so registered.
(5) The register shall consist of three parts of which-
(a) the first part shall be in respect of fellows including honorary fellows;
(b) the second part shall be in respect of associates including honorary associates; and
(c) the third part shall be in respect of others.
(6) Subject to the following provisions of this section, the Council shall make rules with respect to the form and the keeping of the registers and the making of entries therein, and in particular-
(a)
regulating the making of applications for enrolment or registration, as the case may be, 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 an enrolled or a registered person to have any qualification which is, in relation to the relevant division of the profession, either an approved qualification or an accepted qualification for the purposes 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, including any annual subscription, to be paid to the Institute in respect of the entry of names on the register, and authorising the Registrar to refuse to enter a name on the register until any fee specified for the entry has been paid; and
(e) specifying anything falling to be specified under the foregoing provisions of this section.
(7) Rules made for the purposes of paragraph (d) of subsection (6) of this section shall not come into force until approved at the next annual general meeting of the Institute.
(8) It shall be the duty of the Registrar-
(a) to 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) to make, from time to time, any necessary alterations to the registered particulars of registered persons;
(c) to remove from the register the name of any enrolled or registered person who has died;
(d) to record the name of any member of the Institute who is in default for more than six months in the payment of his annual subscription, and to take such action in relation thereto (including removal of the name of a defaulter from the register) as the Council under this Act may direct or require.
(9) If the Registrar-
(a) sends by post, to any registered or enrolled person, a registered letter addressed to that person at his address on the register, enquiring whether the registered or enrolled 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 the 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 register: Provided that the Council may direct the Registrar to restore to the appropriate part of the register any particulars removed therefrom under this subsection.