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to oversee the provision of counselling services;

to evaluate the need for counselling services in Malaysia;

to regulate the training of counsellors and determine the types and levels of counselling to be made available in

Malaysia;

to determine the qualifications entitling a person to be registered under this Act;

to determine the standard of counselling training programmes;

to make recommendations to the Government in relation to the standard of counselling services;

to register qualified counsellors;

to regulate the fees which can be charged by a registered counsellor for his counselling services;

to appoint members of the Board to sit on any board, committee or body formed for any purpose affecting the counselling profession;

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to regulate the conduct of the counselling profession, including prescribing the code of ethics for the counselling profession; and

to do such other things as may be necessary to enable it to carry out its functions effectively.