Section 5: Appointment of the Registrar and preparation of register.

(1) The Board shall appoint a person to be the Registrar of the Council and for the purpose of this Act, the person appointed shall hold, at least, a degree certificate and must possess, at least, 10 years cognate experience in the required field.
(2) The Registrar shall -
(a) hold office for four years; and
(b) subject to satisfactory performance, be eligible for re-appointment for another four years and no more.
(3) The Registrar shall prepare and maintain in accordance with the rules made by the Council under this section, a register of Professional Counsellors (in this Act referred to as "the register").
(4) The register shall contain the names, addresses, approved qualifications and 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 professional counsellors and who apply in the specified manner, to be so registered.
(5) The Register shall consist of-
(a) fully registered persons; and
(b) provisionally registered persons.
(6) Subject to the provision of this section, the Council shall make rules with respect to the formal keeping of the register and the making of entries in the register, and in particular-
(a) making of applications for registration and providing for the evidence to be produced in support of an application;
(b) providing for the notification to the Registrar, by the person to whom the 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 as either a corrected edition of the register or a list of alterations made to the register since it was last printed; and
(d) specifying anything failing to be specified under the provisions of this section.
(7) The Registrar shall -
(a) correct, in accordance with the Council's direction, any entry in the register, which the Council directs him to correct as being in the Council's entry, which was incorrectly made;
(b) make any necessary alteration to the registered particulars of registered persons; and
(c) remove from the relevant part of the register, the name of any registered person who has died, or ceased to be entitled to be registered.
(8) If the Registrar -
(a) sends by post to any registered person a 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 the letter, and
(b) upon the expiration of the six months, 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 the letter,
the Registrar may remove the particulars relating to the person in question from the relevant part of the register.
(9) The Council may, for any sufficient reason, direct the Registrar to restore to the appropriate part of the register any particulars removed under this section.