Section 8: Appointment of Registrar, etc. and preparation of the register.

(1) The Council shall appoint a fit and proper person to be the Registrar for the purposes of this Act.
(2) The Council may appoint such other persons to assist the Registrar in the performance of the functions of the Institute under this Act as and when it deems necessary to make such applications.
(3) It shall be the duty of the Registrar to prepare and maintain, in accordance with rules made by the Council, a register of the names, addresses, approved qualifications, and of such other qualifications and particulars as may be specified in the rules, of all persons who are entitled in accordance with the provisions of this Act to be enrolled as fellows, members or associates, or registered as public relations practitioners and who, in the manner prescribed by such rules, apply to be so registered.
(4) The register shall consist of four parts of which-
(a) the first part shall be in respect of fellows ;
(b) the second part shall be in respect of members;
(c) the third part shall be in respect of associates; and
(d) the fourth part shall be in respect of public relations practitioners.
(5) Subject to the foregoing 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 enrolment or registration, as the case may be, and providing for the evidence to be produced in support of such applications;
(b) providing for the notification to the Registrar, by the person to whom any registered particulars relates, of any change in those particulars ;
(c) authorising an enrolled or 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, entered 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 any annual 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 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 at a meeting of the Institute.
(6) 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 alteration to the registered particulars of any registered person ;
(c) to remove from the register the name of any enrolled or 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 may direct or require.
(7) If the Registrar
(a) sends by post to any registered or enrolled person a registered letter addressed to him at his address on the register enquiring whether the registered or enrolled 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 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 ; but the Council may direct the Registrar to restore to the appropriate part of the register any particulars removed therefrom under this subsection.