Architects Registration Act 1938
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1938 c. 54 |
| Year | 1938 |
Architects Registration Act, 1938.
(1 & 2 Geo. 6.) CHAPTER 54.
An Act to restrict the use of the name Architect to Registered Architect, and to extend the time within which practising architects may apply for registration.
[29th July 1938]
B E it enacted by the King'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:—
1 Use of title ‘Architect.’
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, a person shall not practise or carry on business under any name, style or title containing the word ‘Architect’ unless he is a person registered under the principal Act:
Provided that nothing in this section shall affect—
(a ) the use of the designation ‘Naval architect,’‘Landscape architect’ or ‘Golf-course architect,’ or
(b ) the validity of any building contract in customary form;
and where at the date of the passing of this Act any person—
(i) holds in the service of a local authority an office by virtue of which he has the control and management of the architectural work of the local authority; and
(ii) is a member of any of the following institutions, that is to say—
The Institution of Civil Engineers;
The Institution of Structural Engineers;
The Chartered Surveyors' Institution; and
The Institution of Municipal and County Engineers;
nothing in this section shall prevent the use of the word ‘architect’ in the description of that person as the holder of such an office in the service of that or any other local authority, if and so long as the local authority's servant or servants engaged under him for the purposes of such work is or include a person registered under the principal Act.
(2) In this section the expression ‘local authority’ means a local authority within the meaning of the Local Government Superannuation Act, 1937 , or the Local Government Superannuation (Scotland) Act, 1937.
(3) For the words ‘Registered Architects’ in subsection (3) of section three of the principal Act, and for the words ‘Registered Architect’ in section seventeen of that Act, there shall be respectively substituted the word ‘Architects’ and the word ‘Architect.’
(4) Section ten of the principal Act shall cease to have effect.
(5) This section shall come into operation on the first day of August nineteen hundred and forty.
2 Date of application for registration.
(1) Notwithstanding anything in the principal Act, a person shall, on application made to the Council in the prescribed manner after the passing of this Act and before the first day of August nineteen hundred and forty, and on payment of the prescribed fee, be entitled to be registered under the principal Act, if he proves, to the satisfaction of the Council or, on an appeal under this section, to the satisfaction of the tribunal hearing the appeal, that at the date of the passing of this Act he was, or had been, practising as an architect in the United Kingdom or in some other part of His Majesty's Dominions.
(2) Where, upon an application made under this section, the Council decide not to register the applicant under the principal Act, he may, within one month from the date on which notice of the decision was served on of section six of that Act, appeal to the Tribunal of Appeal constituted under the following provisions of this section (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Tribunal’); and on any such appeal the Tribunal may give such directions in the matter as it thinks proper, and the decision of the Tribunal shall be final and conclusive.
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