Article 40 Fees in connection with registration

(1)

The Council may make rules with respect to the charging of fees in connection with registration, and in particular in connection with—

(a)

applications for registration in one of the Society’s registers, including applications for restoration to the register pursuant to article 41 or 55;

(b)

retention in one of the Society’s registers;

(c)

applications for entering annotations in, or restoring annotations to, one of the Society’s registers;

(d)

retention of annotations in one of the Society’s registers;

(e)

applications in respect of moving to a different part of the one of the Society’s registers;

(f)

applications in respect of voluntary removal from one of the Society’s registers; and

(g)

issuing further certificates of registration pursuant to article 32(3),

and shall publish any such rules in such manner as it sees fit.

(2)

Rules under paragraph (1) may—

(a)

provide for a fee not to be charged, or to be waived in whole or in part, in prescribed cases or circumstances (including at the discretion of the Registrar);

(b)

provide for the removal of registrants from the Society’s registers where a prescribed fee in respect of their retention in one of the Society’s registers has not been paid, after such warnings as may be prescribed; and

(c)

provide for removing annotations where a prescribed fee in respect of retaining an annotation has not been paid, after such warnings as may be prescribed.

(3)

Where the Registrar removes a person from a register pursuant to rules under paragraph (1), he shall send to the person at his last known home address a statement in writing notifying him of the reasons for the decision.

(4)

Before making rules under paragraph (1), the Council shall consult such registrants or classes of registrants as it considers appropriate.