9Removal of names from register for crime, etc.
1
Where—
a
a person who is registered by the Hairdressing Council is convicted by any court in the United Kingdom of a criminal offence which, in the opinion of the disciplinary committee, renders him unfit to be registered ; or
b
such a person is judged by the disciplinary committee to be guilty of serious negligence in any professional respect; or
c
the disciplinary committee is satisfied that the name of such a person has been fraudulently entered on the register maintained by the Hairdressing Council:
the committee, may, if it thinks fit, direct that the person's name shall be removed from the register.
2
When the disciplinary committee directs that a person's name shall be removed from the register, the committee shall cause notice of the direction to be served on that person.
3
A person whose name is removed from the register in pursuance of a direction of the disciplinary committee under this section shall not be entitled to be registered in the register again except in pursuance of a direction in that behalf given by the committee on the application of that person; and a direction under this section for the removal of a person's name from the register may prohibit an application under this subsection by that person until the expiration of such period from the date of the direction (and where he has duly made such an application, from the date of his last application) as may be specified in the direction.