Section 4: Preparation and maintenance of the register

(1) It shall be the duty of the Council to appoint a fit person to be Registrar for the purposes of this Act.
(2) 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 registered engineers and who apply in the specified manner to be so registered.
(3) The registers of engineering personnel (in this Act referred to as "the registers") shall consist of four registers, one each for-
(a) registered engineers;
(b) registered engineering technologists;
(c) registered engineering technicians; and
(d) registered engineering craftsmen.
(4) Subject to the following provisions of this section, the Council shall make rules with respect to the form and 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 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, in relation to the relevant division of the profession, whether an approved qualification or an accepted qualification for the purpose of section 6 (2) 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 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 fees 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 are confirmed by order of the Minister.
(5) 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 part of the register which relates to provisionally registered persons all particulars relating to a person registered in the other part of that register or relating to persons ceasing for any reason to be entitled to be so provisionally registered; and
(d) to remove from the register the name of any registered person who has died.
(6) 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 six 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 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; and the Council may direct the Registrar to restore to the appropriate part of the register any particulars removed therefrom under this subsection.