Section 5: Power to direct registration, etc

(1)
Where the Council of State upon receipt of a nomination is of opinion that the circumstances are such as to render it expedient that the name of the person concerned should be inscribed in the Register, the Council of State shall advise the President accordingly, and the President may thereafter give such directions relative thereto, as he may, in his discretion, think fit:
Provided that the President shall not direct the inclusion of the name of a living person in the Register if there are already not less than five names of other living persons in the relevant part of the Register.