Section 2: Category of membership of the Institute.

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, members admitted to membership of the Institute shall
(a) be enrolled as public relations practitioners in the category of:-
(i) fellows ;
(ii) members ; or
(iii) associates
(b) be registered as public relations practitioners, and shall have status as registered in the Institute accordingly.
(2) Persons registered under this Act as public relations practitioners shall be entitled to be enrolled-
(a) as fellows, if they satisfy the Council that for the period of ten years immediately preceding the date of application in that behalf they have been fit persons and have, in addition to being the holders of approved academic qualifications, been in continuous active practice on their own account as public relations practitioners or in partnership with other public relations practitioners ;
(b) as members, if for the period of not less than ten years immediately preceding the date of application in that behalf (the period of membership of the Association of Public Relations, in the discretion of the Council counting in that behalf) they have been enrolled as associates, whether in active practice as public relations practitioners or not and are otherwise fit and proper persons ; and
(c) as associates, if they satisfy the Council that they have passed examinations prescribed or accepted by the Institute and are otherwise fit and proper persons to be enrolled in the register.
(3) Persons enrolled in the Institute shall be the holders of qualifications, acceptable to the Institute but not less than those prescribed in Schedule 4 to this Act.
(4) Where a person is enrolled or registered, as the case may be, in the Institute, he shall be entitled to the use of such letters after his name as may be authorised by the Council, that is to say, as a fellow, a member or an associate or as a registered public relations practitioner and shall, when enrolled or registered, as the case may be, receive a certificate in such form as the Council may approve for that purpose.
(5) The Institute may enrol-
(a) graduates ;
(b) affiliates ;
(c) students ;
for the purpose of being registered as public relations practitioners in accordance with the provisions of the Act.