- Laws of Fiji

Last Updated: 1 January 2020

[MDP 30] Registers to be kept30

(1) The Registrar must keep the following registers—

(a)a medical register;
(b)a dental register;
(c)a medical student register; and
(d)a dental student register.

(2) The medical and dental registers must include, in relation to each person on the register—

(a)the person's full name and nominated contact address;
(b)the qualifications for registration held by the person;
(c)relevant qualifications obtained after registration;
(d)any vocational category in which the person is qualified to practise;
(e)a record of annual returns sent and licence fees paid;
(f)any other information prescribed by the regulations,

and may include any other information the relevant Council thinks fit.

(3) The dental register must indicate the division of dental practice in which a registered person is registered.

(4) The dental student register must show the existing division in which the registered person is registered and the division that the course of study will qualify the person for.

(5) The medical and dental registers must include particulars of any registered person whose practice is subject to conditions either entered into voluntarily between a Council and the registered person, or imposed by a Council.

(6) A registered person must, within one month after changing his or her name or nominated contact address, inform the Registrar in writing of the change and failing to so inform is an offence.

Maximum penalty: A fine of $250.

(7) The Registrar must also keep an archival register of persons who have been removed from one of the registers mentioned in subsection (1) under this or any other written law and who have not been reinstated on that register.

(8) The archival register referred to in subsection (7) must not include any person who has died, but must include, in relation to each person on the register, a statement of—

(a)the register from which the person was removed;
(b)the reason for removal of the person;
(c)the date of removal;
(d)if the removal was consequent on suspension, the duration of the suspension;
(e)if the registration has been cancelled, the date of the cancellation;
(f)if the person has been disqualified from being registered, the date and duration of the disqualification and any conditions attached to its removal.

(9) Information relating to a person who has been reinstated on another register must be removed from the archival register.