Section 17: Rules for keeping and maintaining registers.

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Council may make rules with respect to the forms, contents, parts and procedures for keeping and making of entries in any of the registers provided under this Part.
(2) The rules made under subsection (1) shall, in particular make provision for -
(a) regulating the making and processing of applications for enrolment of provisional members or members and the registration of premises under this section;
(b) the notification to the Registrar of any change in those particulars by the person -
(i) to whom any registered particulars relate, or
(ii) carrying on a pharmacy practice at any registered premises;
(c) the procedure for the acceptance and registration of additional qualification to the earlier qualification held by him which is in relation to the profession;
(d) specifying the fees, including any annual subscription, to be paid to the Council in respect of -
(i) entry of names in the register of pharmacists or the registration of premises in the register of premises, and
(ii) entry of names in the register of pharmacy technicians or the registration of satellite medicine facilities, patent medicines vendors or shops;
(e) authorising the Registrar to refuse to enter a name or premises in a register until any fees specified for the entry has been paid or until the premises comply with the requirements of this Act or of rules made on that behalf which are for the time being in effect; and
(f) specifying any other thing not mentioned under this provisions which the Council considers necessary or expedient.
(3) A document signed by the Registrar stating that, on a specified date, specified persons or premises were or were not registered under this Act shall be admissible in a proceeding as evidence of such registration or non-registration.