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A.D. 1927. registered persons who shall have died or have been declared by a competent court to be lunatics, and any names which the Council in accordance with the provisions of this Act are entitled to have removed from the register and any names or particulars inaccurately 5 entered therein, and from time to time to cause to be made any necessary alterations therein.

Appointment of officers.

Persons

entitled to be regis

tered

without

examination.

(2) The Council shall annually publish and offer for sale copies of the register, setting forth the names of the registered persons in alphabetical order according to 10 their surnames, with their respective regular business addresses, and a copy of the register certified by order of the Council or by any officer of the Council duly authorised in that behalf, to be a correct copy, shall be primâ facie evidence that any person named therein is 15 registered in accordance with the provisions of this Act: Provided always that in the case of a person whose name does not appear on such copy, a certificate under the hand of any officer of the Council, duly authorised in that behalf of the entry of the name of such person in 20 the register, shall be evidence that such person is registered in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

4. The Council shall from time to time appoint such officers and servants as shall be necessary for the purposes of this Act and may assign to such officers and 25 servants such duties as the Council shall consider desirable for the purposes of this Act, and every person so appointed shall be removable at the pleasure of the Council, and shall be paid by the Council such salary, emoluments and benefits as the Council may think fit.

5.-(1) The following persons shall, without any other qualification being required under this Act, be entitled to be registered and the Council shall cause their names to be entered in the register :

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(a) Architect members of the Royal Academy and 35 of the Royal Scottish Academy;

(b) Every person who has gained a diploma in architecture from any university in Great Britain or Northern Ireland;

(c) Every person who at the passing of this Act is 40 in bonâ fide practice as an architect;

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(d) Every person—

(i) who was for a period of five years immediately prior to and is at the passing of this Act a bonâ fide architectural assistant;

or

(ii) who subsequently to the passing of
this Act has completed a period of five years
(one year at least of which period shall have
been prior to the passing of this Act) as a
bonâ fide architectural assistant;

Any period during which any such architectural
assistant has been engaged as a pupil to an
architect or has been a student in a school of
architecture recognized as such by the Council
shall be reckoned as part of such period of five
years.

(2) If any question arises as to whether any person is entitled to be registered under paragraphs (c) and (d) of this section such questions shall be referred to and 20 determined by the admission committee, hereinafter in this section mentioned, and in the event of the admission committee reporting to the Council that any such person is not entitled to be so registered, the Council shall thereupon inform such person in writing of the decision 25 of the admission committee and refuse to enter his name in the register.

(3) For the purposes of this section there shall be appointed annually an admission committee consisting of eighteen persons, one to be nominated by each of the 30 nine bodies specified in the Second Schedule to this Act and nine members of the Institute to be appointed by the Council. The admission committee shall continue in existence for such period as may be necessary to deal with questions arising under subsection (2) of this 35 section.

(4) No fee for registration shall be payable by any person registered under this section or for the retention of his name on the register.

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6.-(1) The Council shall from time to time by Council to 40 regulations prescribe the qualifications necessary for prescribe registration in respect of persons other than those future referred to in the immediately preceding section of this

qualifications for

A.D. 1927. Act, and any person possessing the prescribed qualifications shall, on making application to the Council in the prescribed manner and on payment of the prescribed fee, be entitled to be entered in the register.

registration.

Removal

of name from register.

(2) If on the advice of the Board of Architectural 5 Education, constituted in manner prescribed in the First Schedule to this Act or otherwise as may be provided under the byelaws of the Institute and to be appointed annually by the Council under such byelaws (in this section called "the board "), the prescribed 10 qualifications include the passing of any examinations the Council shall provide for the holding by the board of such examinations at least once in each year and at such times and places as the board may prescribe. The Council shall recognize as examinations under this 15 section examinations, the passing of which is or may be recognized for exemption from the final examination of the Institute, and on the advice of the board the Council may recognize as examinations under this section examinations for the time being organized and held at any 20 school of architecture of a university or of any other body: Provided always that recognition of examinations once accorded by the Council shall not be withdrawn without the approval of the Privy Council.

7.-(1) If any person registered under the provi- 25 sions of this Act shall be convicted of felony or misdemeanour or shall after an inquiry held as hereinafter provided be judged by the discipline committee, hereinafter in this section mentioned, to have conducted himself in a manner derogatory to his professional character, the 30 Council may cause the name of such person to be removed from the register, either permanently or for such period as they think fit.

(2) For the purpose of holding any inquiry under this section as to whether any person registered under 35 this Act has conducted himself in a manner derogatory to his professional character, and at which inquiry such person shall be entitled to be heard, there shall be appointed annually a committee to be called "the discipline committee," consisting of five members, one 40 member being a vice-president of the Institute, two members being persons registered under this Act to be appointed by the Council, one member appointed by the Minister of Health and one member appointed by the

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President for the time being of the Law Society, and A.D. 1927. the Council shall convene a meeting of the discipline committee from time to time whenever necessary to hold any such inquiry.

8. The Council may at any time restore to the Restoration of register any name or entry removed therefrom.

name removed from register.

9. In any case in which the Council refuse to register Council to any person or remove the name of any person from the give notice register, they shall give notice thereof in writing to that of refusal to 10 person within one month after the receipt of the applica- register or of tion for registration or after the removal of the name from name from the register.

register.

removal of

10. Any person aggrieved by the refusal of the Appeal Council to enter his name in the register or the removal against 15 of his name from the register, may within three months refusal to from the date on which he receives notice in writing to register or that effect from the Council appeal against the refusal or the removal as the case may be in manner provided register. by rules of court to the High Court, and on any such 20 appeal the High Court may give such directions in the

matter as they think proper, including directions as to the costs of the appeal, and the order of the High Court shall be final and conclusive and not subject to an appeal to any other court.

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name from

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and use the name or title of "architect" or any style titles.
containing the words "architect " "architecture " or
"architectural," but after the expiration of one year
from the passing of this Act, a person shall not practise
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title or style containing the words architect,
"architecture " or "architectural," unless he is a
registered person, and any unregistered person who so
practises or wilfully pretends to be a registered person, or
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name, title, style or description implying that he is a
registered person or that he is recognized by law as a
member of the profession of an architect shall on summary
conviction be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty
40 pounds for the first offence and one hundred pounds
for every subsequent offence: Provided that subject
to the provisions of this section nothing in this Act shall
prevent any local authority or person performing any

A.D. 1927. act or operations in connection with the construction of buildings which such local authority or person was entitled to perform prior to the passing of this Act: Provided also that nothing in this section shall-affect the validity as between contracting parties of any act of 5 any person under any customary form or conditions of a building contract.

Recovery of charges.

12. After the expiration of one year from the passing of this Act a person shall not be entitled to recover any charge in any court of law for any professional services 10 rendered as an architect unless he is a registered person : Provided that this section shall not apply to any services rendered in pursuance of any contract made before the passing of this Act.

Change of 13. For the purpose of maintaining the register the 15 address, &c. Council may at any time by notice in writing addressed to any person registered under this Act at his address in the register, inquire if such person has changed his regular business address, and if no answer shall be received within six months from the sending of such 20 notice, the Council shall send a further notice by post as a registered letter, and if no answer shall be received within three months from the sending of such further notice the Council may remove the name of such person from the register.

Penalty for obtaining registration by false representation.

Prosecu

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14. If any person shall wilfully procure or attempt to procure himself to be registered under this Act by making or producing or causing to be made or produced any false or fraudulent representation or declaration, either verbally or in writing, the person so offending and every 30 other person aiding or assisting him therein shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds, and shall, if registered, have his name removed from the register.

15. A prosecution for any offence under this Act 35 may be instituted' by the Council, and all penalties reapplication covered under this Act shall be paid to the Council or to of penalties. an officer of the Council duly authorised in that behalf.

Power to make regulations.

16. The Council may from time to time make regulations

40 (a) Prescribing the fees to be charged in respect of the entry of any name or other particulars on

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