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person who fails, when summoned by the
Council, to attend as a witness or to produce any books or
documents which he is required to produce commits an
offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not
exceeding fifty thousand shillings or to imprisonment for
six months, or both.
(10) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act,
the Council shall not remove the name of a person from the
register, or cancel any licence granted to a person, unless
such a decision is supported by a majority of all the
Council members.

27. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the
removal of a person's name from the register shall be
notified by the Council to that person by registered mail
sent to the address appearing in the register against that
person's name immediately before such removal.

(2) Where the name of a person has been removed
from the register, the name of that person shall not, subject
to the provisions of this Act, be entered again in the register
except by order of the Council.
(3) Where an order has been made for the removal of a
person's name from the register, or for suspending a
person's regisffation under this Act, or for cancelling or
suspending a licence granted to a person under this Act, the
Council may either on its own motion or on the application
of the person concerned, and in either case after holding
such inquiry as the Council may deem fit, cause the name
of that person to be restored to the register or terminate the
suspension of the registration, or, as the case may be, grant
a new licence or terminate the suspension of the existing
licence, in any such case either without fee or on the
payment of such fee, not exceeding the appropriate
registration or licence fee, as the Council may determine.

(4) Subsection (1) shall not apply when a

person's

name has been removed from the register at that person' s
request or with that person's consent in circumstances
under which it could not otherwise have been removed
without consent.

(5) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (3)
above, a person whose name was removed from the register

at that person's own request, shall upon application and on

Effect of removal,
suspension or
cancellation.

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