Section 4: Appointment of the registrar, other staff and preparation of the register

(1) There shall be appointed by the President for the Council a registrar.
(2) The registrar shall be the chief executive and secretary to the Council and be responsible for the day to day administration of the Council.
(3) The registrar shall hold office for a term of five years in the first instance and shall be eligible for re-appointment for one further term of five years and no more.
(4) The Council may, from time to time, appoint such other persons as the Council may deem fit to assist the registrar in the performance of his functions under this Act.
(5) 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 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 registered as members of the profession and who apply to be so registered.
(6) Subject to the following provisions of this section, the Council may make rules with respect to the form and keeping of the register and the making of entries therein, and in particular-
(a) the making of the applications for registration;
(b) providing for notification to the registrar, by the person to whom any registered particulars relate, of any change in those particulars;
(c) authorising 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 qualification so registered;
(d) specifying the fees, including any annual subscription to be paid to the Council in respect of the entry of a name 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:
Provided that rules for the purposes of paragraph (d) of this subsection shall not come into force until they are confirmed at a special meeting of the Council convened for the purpose thereafter or at the next general meeting of the registered members as the case may be.
(7) It shall be the duty of the registrar to-
(a) 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) make, from time to time, any necessary alteration to the registered particulars of registered persons;
(c) remove from the register the name of any registered person who has died;
(d) record the names of any registered members of the profession who are in default for more than four months in the payment of the annual subscriptions, and to take such action in relation thereto (including removal of the names of defaulters from the register) as the Council under this Act may direct or require.
(8) If the registrar-
(a) sends by post to any registered person, a registered letter addressed to him at his address on the register inquiring whether the registered 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: Provided that the Council directs the registrar to restore to the appropriate part of the register any particulars removed therefrom under this subsection.