Section 6: Appointment and duties of the Registrar and preparation of the Register.

(1) It shall be the duty of the Council to appoint a fit person to be the Registrar for the purposes of this Act.
(2) The Registrar shall be the Head of Administration of the Institute and Secretary to the Council.
(3) The Registrar shall prepare and maintain, in accordance with the rules made by the Council, a register of the names, addresses, approved qualifications and other relevant particulars as may be specified in the rules, of all persons who are entitled to be enrolled as companions, fellows, members or associates.
(4) The Register shall consist of five parts of which one part shall be in respect of companions, the second part shall be in respect of fellows, the third part shall be in respect of members, the fourth shall be in respect of associates and the fifth part shall be in respect of graduates and students.
(5) Subject to the following provisions of this section, the Council may make rules with respect to the form and keeping of the Register and making of entries therein and in particular-
(a) the making of applications for enrolment;
(b) providing for notification to the Registrar, by the person to whom 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 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 subscription to be paid to the Institute in respect of the entry of names on the Register authorizing the Registrar to refuse to enter a name on the Register until the fee specified for the entry has been paid;
(e) specifying anything failing to be specified under this section, but rules made for the purposes of subsection (4) of this section shall not come into force until they are confirmed at a special meeting of the Institute convened for that purpose or at the next annual general meeting as the case may be.
(6) The Registrar shall-
(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 alterations in 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 members of the Institute who are in default for more than twelve months in the payment of annual subscriptions, and take such action in relation there to ( including removal of the names of the defaulters from the Register) as the Council may direct or require.
(7) If the Registrar-
(a) sends by post to any registered person a letter addressed to him at his address on the Register enquiring 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 ; 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 and the Council may direct the Registrar to restore to the appropriate part of the Register any particulars removed there from under this subsection.