Section 9: Preparation and maintenance of the register.

(1)
It shall be the duty of the Registrar to 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, of all persons who are entitled, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, to be registered as mining engineers or geoscientists and who apply in the specified manner to be so registered.
(2) The register shall consist of two parts of which one shall be in respect of fully registered persons and the other in respect of provisionally registered persons.
(3) Subject to the following provisions of this section, the Council shall make rules with respect to the form and the keeping of the register and the making of entries therein, and in particular for-
(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 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 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,
but rules made for the purposes of paragraph (d) of this subsection shall not come into force until they have been approved by the Minister and published in the Gazette.
(4) It shall be the duty of the Registrar-
(a) to correct in accordance with the direction of the Council, any entry which in the opinion of the Council is 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 which relates to provisionally registered persons all particulars relating to a person registered in the other part of the 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 registered.
(5) 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 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 and 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, for any reason which seems to it to be sufficient, direct the Registrar to restore to the appropriate part of the register any particulars removed therefrom under this subsection.