The general council appoints a registrar for England, and the branch councils for Scotland and Ireland appoint respectively a registrar for Scotland and Ireland (ib., s. 10, 11).
Registrar.—It is the duty of the registrars to keep their registers correct, and to erase the names of all registered persons who shall have died, and from time to time to make the necessary alterations in the addresses or qualifications of persons registered. It is lawful for the registrar to write a letter to any registered person, addressed to him according to his address on the register, to inquire whether he has ceased to practise or has changed his residence, and if no answer be returned within six months from the time of sending the letter, it is lawful to erase the name of such person from the register, but it may be restored by direction of the general council (ib., s. 14).
Qualification.—Persons possessed of one or more of the qualifications described in Schedule A, on the payment of a fee not exceeding £5, are entitled to register on the production to the registrar of the branch council for England, Scotland, or Ireland the document conferring or evidencing the qualification in respect whereof he seeks to be registered, or upon transmitting by post to such registrar information of his name and address, and evidence of his qualifications and of the time or times at which they were obtained. The several colleges and bodies mentioned in Schedule A may transmit from time to time to the registrar, under their respective seals, lists of the persons who by grant of such colleges and bodies respectively, are for the time being entitled to register, stating the qualifications and residences of such persons, and it shall be lawful for the registrar on the payment of the said fee to enter in the register the persons mentioned in such lists with their qualifications and places of residences as therein stated without other application (ib., s. 15).
The general council is required to make orders for regulating the registers from time to time (ib., s. 16).
Persons actually practising medicine in England before August 1st, 1815, were entitled to register under the act (ib., s. 17).
Any two or more of the colleges and bodies in the United Kingdom mentioned in Schedule A may, with the sanction and under the direction of the general council, unite or co-operate in conducting the examinations required for qualifications to be registered (ib., s. 19, 37 and 38 Vict., c. 34).
The privy council may suspend the right of registration in respect of qualifications granted by any college or body (ib., s. 21).
After such revocation, no person shall be entitled to register in respect to any qualification granted by such college before revocation (ib., s. 22).
The privy council may issue an injunction directing any body entitled to grant qualifications to desist from imposing upon any candidate for examination an obligation to adopt or refrain from adopting the practice of any particular theory of medicine or surgery as a test or condition of admitting him to examination or granting him a certificate; and in the event of their not complying, may order that such body cease to have the power of conferring a right to be registered so long as they shall continue such practice (ib., s. 23).
Where any person entitled to be registered applies to the registrar of any branch council for that purpose, such registrar is required forthwith to enter in a local register the name and place of residence, and the qualifications in respect of which the person is so entitled and the date of registration; and in case of the branch council for Scotland or Ireland, to send to the registrar of the general council a copy of the entry, and the registrar of the general council is required to cause the same to be entered in the general register; and such registrar is required to cause all entries made in the local register for England to be entered in the general register (ib., s. 25).