CHARTERED RISK MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE OF NIGERIA ACT, 2022

Section 13: Appointment of the Registrar and the register

2022Section 13 of 28Federal Republic of Nigeria

(1) The Council shall appoint –
(a) a fit and proper person who shall be a member of the Institute to be the Registrar and chief executive officer of the Institute who shall also serve as the Secretary of the Council for the purposes of this Act; and
(b) such other persons as the Institute may deem necessary.
(2) The Registrar shall prepare and maintain, in accordance with rules made by the Council, a register of the names, addresses. approved qualifications, and such other particulars as may be specified in the rules, of all persons who –
(a) are entitled in accordance with the provisions of this Act to be registered as members of the Institute; or
(b) in the manner prescribed by the rules, have applied to be registered.
(3) There shall be for the purpose of this Act two registers –
(a) the register of individual members which shall consist of seven parts -
(i) first part in respect of Students,
(ii) second part in respect of Associates,
(iii) third part in respect of Senior Associates,
(iv) fourth part in respect of Registered Risk Managers,
(v) fifth part in respect of Honourary members,
(vi) sixth part in respect of Chartered Risk Managers, and
(vii) seventh part in respect of Fellow Chartered Risk Managers; and
(b) the register of Institutional members.
(4) Subject to the provisions of this section, the Council shall make rules with respect to the form and keeping of the register, and the making of entries in it, and in particular for —
(a) regulating applications for enrolment or registration, and the evidence to be produced in support of the applications;
(b) providing for the Registrar, by the person to whom any registered particulars relate, of any change in them;
(c) authorising a registered person to have any qualification which, in relation to risk management, is either an approved qualification or an accepted qualification for the purpose 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 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 entry has been paid; and
(e) specifying any other thing not specified under the provisions of this section.
(5) Rules made under subsection (4) (d) shall not come into effect until they are confirmed at a special meeting of the Institute convened for that purpose or at the next AGM, as the case may be.
(6) The Registrar shall —
(a) correct, in accordance with the directions of the Council, any entry in the register which the Council directs him to correct as being, in the opinion of the Council, an entry which was incorrectly made;
(b) make any necessary alteration to the registered particulars of registered persons;
(c) record the names of members of the Institute who are in default for more than six months in the payment of annual subscriptions, and take such action, including removal of the names of defaulters from the register, as the Council may direct or require; and
(d) remove from the register the name of any registered person who has died.
(7) Where the Registrar –
(a) sends by post or electronic means 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 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 the particulars removed under this subsection.

Cite this section

Section 13, CHARTERED RISK MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE OF NIGERIA ACT, 2022 (2022).

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