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456:, or with the usage of persons or bodies practising in the regulatory field as commonly understood, such as: "regulation of the use of title" and "regulation of all aspects relating to the conduct and discipline of architects". These are certainly more than overstatements of the very limited powers for which the board was actually reconstituted under the 1996/1997 legislation, which gave the board no power over architects or the supply of architectural services as such, and where the restraint on the use of title is in fact prescribed by the legislation and not delegated to the board, whose main function under the Architects Act 1997 is no more than to maintain and publish the 213: 146: 48: 482: 296: 569:. This Directive defines "competent authority" among other things as a body empowered by a Member State specifically to receive the applications and to take the decisions referred to in the Directive; and "regulated profession" as a professional activity one of the modes of pursuit of which is subject by virtue of legislative provision to the possession of specific professional qualifications. 359:
was made to that effect. On the 1938 Act coming into force, the 1931 act was to be construed as one with the Architects (Registration) Act 1934 and the Architects Registration Act 1938; those three Acts could be cited together as the Architects (Registration) Acts, 1931 to 1938; and in the 1938 Act
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Among other things, by section 1 of the 1938 Act, with effect from 1 August 1940, section 10 of the 1931 Act would be replaced by subsection 1(1) of the 1938 Act. The effect of this was that, instead of allowing qualified persons to use a statutory title if they chose to apply for it, restrictions
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Subsection 13(1) of the Architects (Registration) Act 1931 had conferred on the council (ARCUK) a limited power to make regulations to prescribe anything which by the Act was specifically required or authorised to be prescribed (such as, the annual retention fee or regulating meetings and procedure
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had been carrying out its functions vis-à-vis member states in connection with the mutual recognition of the qualifications of architects and certain other professions. It was pursuant to those directives that a person from one member state (or certain other states) wishing to practise in another
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was published in 1993, it was found that its principal recommendation was abolition of protection of the title "architect" and the disbanding of ARCUK. Instead, the Council has been reconstituted and renamed as the
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of the Council) and "generally for carrying out or facilitating the purposes of the Act". But under subsection 13(2) any such regulations would have no force or validity unless previously approved by the
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The effect of the 1996 Act was to repeal part of the Architects (Registration) Acts 1931 to 1938 as then amended, and to amend and add to other parts. Those Acts, as amended by the 1996 Act, were then
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and under section 10 persons who were entitled to apply for registration could thereby claim "to take and use the name or title 'Registered Architect' ", as a statutory right, with effect from 1932.
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might be required to produce a certificate of qualification; and that in the United Kingdom, the Architects Registration Board has been acting as the "Competent Authority" in respect of architects.
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required the Architects' Registration Council of the United Kingdom (ARCUK) ("the Council") to set up, maintain and publish annually a register, in the manner prescribed by the Acts.
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By subsection 18(1), the originating act of 1931 was to come into operation on 1 January 1932, save as otherwise provided in the Act; and by subsection 18(2), it was to extend to
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by subsection 3(3) of the 1938 Act, with effect from 1 August 1940. The name the Register of Architects has continued unchanged, and remains so under the Architects Act 1997.
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Some risk of conceptual confusion about regulation has resulted from an apparent need to let the native language accommodate terms derived from the habitual idiom of
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of 7 September 2005 "on recognition of professional qualifications". That abolishing of obstacles has brought in its train a series of directives by which the EEC/
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An Act to restrict the use of the name Architect to Registered Architects and to extend the time within which practising architects may apply for registration.
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An Act to restrict the use of the name Architect to Registered Architects and to extend the time within which practising architects may apply for registration
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By subsection 3(3) of the originating Act of 1931 the statutory register was to be called the Register of Registered Architects. This was changed to the
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or other chartered bodies, or societies or associations, of architects; and this innovation was imposed under threat of penalty on prosecution in the
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on the use of the vernacular word "architect" were introduced which were to apply to all persons, including fully qualified practising members of the
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in the manner prescribed by the Act, its other functions being ancillary to that function, which in turn is for the purpose of enabling
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to ascertain whether a person is liable to conviction for infringement of the restriction on the use of "architect".
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The governing act for the keeping and publication of the Register in the prescribed manner is now the
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By subsection 3(1) of the 1931 Act the council was to be a body corporate by the name of the
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An Act to provide for the Registration of architects and for purposes connected therewith.
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An Act to provide for the Registration of architects and for purposes connected therewith.
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is the statutory citation for three Acts of the United Kingdom Parliament, namely:
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the expression "principal Act" meant the Architects (Registration) Act, 1931.
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The board now has limited powers under the Architects Act 1997 to make
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These acts have been amended and have been replaced as amended by the
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Statutory citation for three Acts of the United Kingdom Parliament
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An Act to consolidate the enactments relating to architects
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This has been regularly recited in EU directives, such as
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An Act to amend the Architects (Registration) Act, 1931.
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Architects' Registration Council of the United Kingdom
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Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996
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in the manner prescribed by the Act, but not to make
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of 1997, which thereafter became the governing Act.
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Architects (Registration) Act 1931
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title
Citation
21 & 22 Geo. 5
Royal assent
Repealed by
Architects Act 1997
Text of statute as originally enacted
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title
Citation
24 & 25 Geo. 5
Royal assent
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title
Citation
1 & 2 Geo. 6
Royal assent
Repealed by
Architects Act 1997
Text of statute as originally enacted

21 & 22 Geo. 5
Architects Act 1997
Northern Ireland
Order in Council
Architects' Registration Council of the United Kingdom
Architects Act 1997
long title

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