Architects Act 1997

Part IThe Architects Registration Board

1AAAuthorisation for Board to enter into regulator recognition agreements

1ADesignation of the Board as competent authority

Part II Registration etc.

The Registrar and the Register

2 The Registrar.

3 The Register.

4Registration ...: general

4ARegistration ...: European qualifications

5A Registration in Part 2 of the Register : Directive-rights nationals providing services

5B Titles to be used by persons registered in Part 2 of the Register

5CInformation to be given to recipients of the service

5DAdministrative co-operation with other relevant European States

5EComplaints by recipients of services

6Registration: further procedural requirements.

6AIssuing of certificates of architectural education

7 Penalty for obtaining registrationor recognition by false representation.

Removal from Register etc.

8 Retention of name in Register.

9 Competence to practise.

10Disqualification in a relevant European State.

11 Failure to notify change of address.

12 Visiting EEA architects.

Part III Discipline

Professional standards

13 Code of practice.

14 Professional misconduct and incompetence.

Disciplinary orders

15 Disciplinary orders.

16 Penalty orders.

17 Suspension orders.

18 Erasure orders.

19 Application of discipline provisions to visiting EEA architects.

Part IV Use of title “architect”

20 Use of title “architect”.

Part VGeneral and supplementary

21AAppeals to the Appeals Committee

22Appeals to the court

22BProfessional-regulation information

22CConfidentiality

24Service of documents.

25Interpretation.

26Consequential amendments.

27Transitionals, repeals etc.

28Short title, commencement and extent.

SCHEDULE 1 The Board and its committees

Part I The Board

1(1) The Board is to consist of eleven members—

Elected members

2. . . . . . . . . ....

Appointed members

3. . . . . . . . . ....

4(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) and paragraph 5,...

5(1) A person who has been a member of the...

Casual vacancies

6(1) Where a vacancy occurs among the members of the...

7(1) Rules made by the Board may make provision for...

8In the event of a tie in any vote of...

9The quorum of the Board is— (a) the chair of...

10The Board may make rules governing its meetings and procedure....

11(1) The Board may appoint staff. (2) The Board shall...

12The Board shall have a common seal which shall be...

Part II The Professional Conduct Committee

13The Professional Conduct Committee is to consist of—

14(1) The members of the Professional Conduct Committee shall elect...

15(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the quorum of the Professional...

16In the event of a tie in any vote of...

17The Board may make rules governing the selection and term...

17AIn paragraph 13 the reference to a person who is...

Part 2AThe appeals committee

17B(1) The Board may make rules about—

Part III Other committees

18(1) The Board may establish such committees as it considers...

19(1) . . . . . . . . ....

20No vote of any committee established by the Board for...

21The Board may make rules governing the term of office...

Part IV General

22(1) The Board, the Professional Conduct Committee , the Appeals...

23The Board may by rules provide for the payment to...

24(1) The Secretary of State may, after consultation with the...

SCHEDULE 1AVISITING ARCHITECTS FROM RELEVANT EUROPEAN STATES

1Application and interpretation

2(1) In this Schedule— (a) “visiting practitioner” means a person...

3Entitlement to be registered in respect of provision of occasional services: first year

4Registration in respect of provision of occasional services after first year

5 Duration of entitlements to be registered in Part 2 of the Register

6Deemed registration where person entitled to be registered is not registered

7 Registrar’s power to remove person’s name from Part 2 of the Register

8Saving for other powers to de-register or suspend registration

9Registrar’s duty to notify person appearing not to have entitlement

SCHEDULE 2 Transitional provisions and savings

General transitionals and savings

1The substitution of this Act for the provisions repealed or...

2Anything done, or having effect as if done, (including the...

3Any reference (express or implied) in this Act or any...

4(1) Any reference (express or implied) in any enactment, or...

5Paragraphs 1 to 4 have effect in place of section...

First appointments to the Board

6The term of office of the members of the Board...

7If— (a) a person duly applied for registration under the...

8Examinations in architecture which immediately before the day on which...

9The reference in subsection (3) of section 8 to a...

10The reference to the Board in section 10(1)(b) shall be...

11If— (a) before Part III of the 1996 Act came...

12(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), sections 14 to 18 have...

13(1) If a person’s name was removed from the Register...

14If— (a) a person’s name was removed from the Register,...

15Section 12(7)(c) shall have effect as if it included a...

Offence of practising while not registered

16The repeal by this Act of Schedule 2 to the...

The Education Fund

17(1) This paragraph applies if when this Act comes into...

18A person to whom the assets of the Fund are...

19(1) In this Schedule— (a) “the 1931 Act” means the...

SCHEDULE 3 Repeals and revocations

TABLE OF DERIVATIONS

2The following abbreviations are used in the Table— 1931 =...

Architects Act 1997

1997 c. 22

An Act to consolidate the enactments relating to architects.

[19th March 1997]

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—