NIGERIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL WORK (ESTABLISHMENT) ACT, 2022

Section 13: Register and registration of members.

2022Section 13 of 31Federal Republic of Nigeria

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Board shall make rules with respect to the form and how to keep and make entries in the register and in particular -
(a) regulating the making of applications for enrolment or registration, as the case may be and provide for the evidence to be produced in support of the applications;
(b) providing for the notification to the Registrar by the person to whom any registered particular relates or any change in those particulars;
(c) authorising an enrolled or registered person to have any qualification which, in relation to the Profession is, either an approved qualification, for the purpose 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 any annual subscription, to be paid to the Council in respect of the entry of names on the register and authorise the Registrar to refuse to enter a name on the register until the fees specified for the entry have been paid;
(e) specifying the standards of conduct required of a member of the Council and actions or omissions that amount to a misconduct; and
(f) specifying anything that has not been specified under this section; but rules made for the purpose of paragraph (d) shall not come into effect until they are confirmed by the Council.
(2) The Registrar shall -
(a) correct, in accordance with the directions of the Board, any entry in the register which the Board directs him to correct as an entry which was incorrectly made in the opinion of the Board;
(b) make necessary alteration in the particulars of registered persons;
(c) remove from the register, the name of a deceased person or persons whose names he is directed to strike off as a result of disciplinary action; and
(d) record the names of registered persons of the Council who are in the default for more than one year in the payment of license renewal fees, and to take such action in relation to it (including removal of the names of defaulters from the register).
(3) A person whose name is removed from the register for being in default of payment of fees for any year may be re-registered subject to payment of outstanding fees as may be approved by the Council and all actions are subject to the approval of the Council.
(4) The rules made under subsection (1) shall provide for a procedure to update the particulars of registered persons in the register, and conditions under which the Registrar may remove the name of a person from the list for failing to update his particulars, and the manner which provides for restoration of a person in the list.

Cite this section

Section 13, NIGERIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL WORK (ESTABLISHMENT) ACT, 2022 (2022).

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