COMMUNITY HEALTH PRACTITIONERS (REGISTRATION, ETC.) ACT

Section 8: Preparation and maintenance of register

1992Section 8 of 29Federal Republic of Nigeria

(1)
It shall be the duty of the Registrar to prepare and maintain, in accordance with rules made by the Board under this section, a register of names, addresses, approved qualifications and of 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 members of the profession and who apply in the specified manner to be so registered.
(2) Subject to the provisions of this section, the Board shall make rules with respect to the form of keeping of the register 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 such applications;
(b)
providing for the notification to the Registrar, by the person to whom any registered particulars relate, of any changes 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 under section 10 (1) 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 to be paid to the Board 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;
(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 have been confirmed by the Minister.
(3) It shall be the duty of the Registrar-
(a)
to correct, in accordance with the directions of the Board, any entry in the register which the Board directs him to correct as being in the opinion of the Board an entry which was incorrectly made;
(b)
to make, from time to time, any necessary alteration to the registered particulars of registered persons;
(c) to remove from the register the name of any registered person who has died or has become insane, or for any other reason has ceased to be a member of the profession.
(4) 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 that letter within three 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 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 but the Board may direct the Registrar to restore to the register any particulars removed therefrom under this subsection.

Cite this section

Section 8, COMMUNITY HEALTH PRACTITIONERS (REGISTRATION, ETC.) ACT (1992).

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