Powers, vested m the Board of Examiners for Air Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers.
Section 4
SEC. 4. Powers, vested m the Board of Examiners for Air Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers.—The Board is vested with authority conformably with the provisions of this Act, to administer the provisions thereof, to issue, suspend and revoke certificates of registration for the practice of air conditioning and refrigeration engineering and to administer oaths. In carrying into effect the provisions of this Act, the Board may, under the hand of its Chairman and the seal of the Board subpoena witnesses and compel their attendance, and also require the production of books, papers documents, etc., in a case involving the revocation of registration, practice or offer to practice without registration. Any member of the Board may administer oaths or Affirmation to witness appearing before the Board. If any person shall refuse to obey any subpoena so issued, or shall refuse to testify or produce any book, paper, document, etc., the Board may present its petition to the Court of First Instance, setting forth the facts, and thereupon such Court shall, in a proper case, issue its subpoena requiring his attendance before such court and there to testify or to produce such books, papers, documents, etc., as may be deemed necessary and pertinent by the Board. Any person failing or refusing to obey any subpoena or order of the said court may be proceeded against in the same manner as for the refusal to obey any other subpoena or order of the court. The Board shall exercise the powers conferred upon it by this Act, shall have charge of the selection, development, preparation of all codes, recommended standards of practice in the field of air conditioning and refrigerating engineering and all revisions therein to be adopted by all practitioners. It shall cooperate with other government agencies in the promotion and encouragement of research in the fields of air conditioning and refrigeration. The Board shall inspect at least once a year; refrigerating engineering works, projects or plants, corporation established in the Philippines, for the purpose of adequately safeguarding life, health and property; the Board also shall inspect educational institution offering courses in an air conditioning and refrigerating engineering and shall discharge such other powers and duties as may affect ethical and technological standards of the air conditioning and refrigerating engineering profession in the Philippines. For the purpose of this Act the Director of the Bureau of Labor Standards and/or his duly authorized representatives in the provinces and such other competent registered engineer of chartered cities, shall be Ex-Officio agents of the Board, and as such it shall be their duty to help in the enforcement of the provisions of this Act.