Keeping and publication of Register

(1) The Registrar shall keep, as nearly as may be in accordance with the form in the First Schedule, an “Opticians’ Register” in which he shall enter the names of all persons entitled to be registered as optometry practitioners under this Act, and he shall give to each person at the time of registration a certificate in the form of the Second Schedule for which the stamp duty prescribed by the Stamp Duties Act, Cap. 64 shall be paid. (2) The Registrar in the month of January in each year shall publish in the Gazette a copy of the said register. (3) Any copy of the Gazette containing the most recent copy of the Register shall be sufficient evidence in all legal proceedings, unless the contrary is shown, that the persons therein specified are registered under this Act, and the absence of the name of any person from such copy shall be sufficient evidence, unless the contrary is shown, that such person is not registered under this Act. (4) In the case of a person whose name does not appear in the copy of the Gazette, a certified copy under the hand of the Registrar of the entry of the name of such person in the Register shall be evidence that such person is registered under this Act.