Maintenance of registers by the Registrar

Maintenance of registers by the Registrar.-

1. (1) The Registrar shall keep the registers in accordance with the provisions of this Act and in accordance with any orders made by the Council, and shall, from time to time, make all necessary alterations in the registers, addresses, or appointments and in the classification, of the registered nurses, midwives and health visitors and erase the name of any such nurse, midwife or health visitor who is dead or has ceased to practise.
2. (2) To enable the Registrar to fulfil the duties imposed upon him by sub-section
3. (1) he may send through the post letter to any person registered as a nurse, a midwife or a health visitor addressed to him according to his registered address or appointment to enquire whether he has ceased to practise or whether his residency or appointment has been changed ; and if no answer to any such letter is received within a period of six months from its despatch, the Registrar may erase the name of such person from the register in which it is entered :