INSTITUTE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT OF NIGERIA ACT

Section 6: Appointment and duties of the Registrar and preparation of the register.

1992Section 6 of 22Federal Republic of Nigeria

(1) It shall be the duty of the Council to appoint a fit person to be the Registrar for the purposes of this Act and such other persons as the Institute may, from time to time, think necessary.
(2) The Registrar shall be the chief executive of the Institute and secretary to the Council.
(3) It shall be the duty of the registrar to prepare and maintain, in accordance with rules made by the Council, a register of names, addresses and approved qualifications and of such other relevant particulars as may be specified in the rules, of all persons who are entitled to be enrolled as fellows, members, associates and affiliates or registered as personnel management practitioners and who apply to be so registered.
(4) The register shall consist of five parts of which one part shall be in respect of fellows, the second part shall be in respect of members, the third part shall be in respect of associates, the fourth part shall be in respect of affiliates, and the fifth part shall be in respect of graduates and students.
(5) Subject to the following provisions of this section, the Council may make rules with respect to the form and keeping of the register and the making of entries therein, and in particular-
(a) the making of applications for enrolment;
(b) providing for notification to the Registrar, by the person to whom any registered particulars relate, to 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, either an approved qualification or an accepted qualification for the purposes 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 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 the entry has been paid;
(e) specifying anything failing 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 at a special meeting of the Institute convened for the purpose thereafter or at the next annual general meeting as the case may be.
(6) It shall be the duty of the Registrar-
(a) to 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) 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;
(d) to record the names of members of the Institute who are in default for more than four months in the payment of annual subscriptions, and to take such action in relation thereto (including removal of the names of defaulters from the register) as the Council under this Act, may direct or require.
(7) lf 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 send 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; so however that the Council may for any reason which seems to it sufficient direct the Registrar to restore to the appropriate part of the register any particulars removed therefrom under this subsection.

Cite this section

Section 6, INSTITUTE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT OF NIGERIA ACT (1992).

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