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Architects Registration Act 1938 (repealed 21.7.1997)

Architects Registration Act 1938 (repealed 21.7.1997) s 1

s 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; . . . (1A) In this Act (and in section 17 of the principal Act) “ business ” includes any undertaking which is carried on for gain or reward or in the course of which services are provided otherwise than free of charge. (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (3) For . . . the words “Registered Architect” in section seventeen of that Act, there shall be . . . substituted . . . and the word “Architect.” (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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