31.—(1) The Council may make such provision in rules in connection with annotations to entries in the Society’s registers to denote specialisations as it considers appropriate, and may in particular make provision with regard to—
(a)the types of specialisations that are to be subject to annotations;
(b)the form and manner in which applications for entering or restoring annotations in respect of specialisations are to be made (and the rules may provide that applicants shall apply using application forms that are in such form as the Council may determine from time to time); and
(c)the circumstances in which annotations in respect of specialisations are to be entered, retained, removed or restored by the Registrar.
(2) Where the Registrar refuses to enter or removes an annotation in respect of a specialisation, he shall send the person making the application for entering an annotation, or in respect of whom an annotation was removed, at his last known home address a statement in writing notifying him of—
(a)the reasons for the decision; and
(b)any right of appeal he has to the Registration Appeals Committee under article 43.