ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Medical Practitioners and Dentists Act
8. Correction of register
Edition: 2022-12-31 · In force
8. Correction of register
(1)The Registrar shall from time to time make any necessary alterations and corrections in the register in relation to any entry therein.(2)The Registrar shall remove from the register—(a)the name of every deceased person;(b)the name of every person convicted of an offence under section 19;(c)the name of every person whose name the Council has under section 20 directed should be struck off the register; and(d)any entry which has been incorrectly or fraudulently made in the register.(3)The Registrar may, with the consent of the person concerned, remove from the register the name of a person who has ceased to practise.(4)The Registrar shall, not later than 1st July in each year, send by registered post to every person registered in the register a notice inquiring whether or not that person has ceased to practise or has changed his address, and, if no answer is returned to the inquiry within six months from the posting thereof, the name of that person may be removed from the register; but a name removed under this subsection may, at the request of the person concerned and on payment of the prescribed fee, be reinstated by the Registrar.(5)The Registrar-General of Births and Deaths shall notify the Registrar of the death of any registered medical practitioner or dentist.