Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996

The 1938 Act

14 (1) Section 1A of the 1938 Act (visiting EC architects) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsections (2), (3) and (4), for “Council” (in each place) substitute “Registrar”.

(3) In subsection (3), for “they consider” substitute “the Registrar considers”.

(4) In subsection (6), for the words from “when” to the end substitute “when—

(a) he is subject to a disqualifying decision in another member State;

(b) his name has been removed from the Register pursuant to a suspension order or an erasure order and has not been re-entered; or

(c) he is required under section 6C(1) of the principal Act to satisfy the Board of his competence to practise but has not done so.”.

(5) In subsection (8), for the words from the beginning to “the regulation of” substitute “The provisions of, and of rules under, the principal Act relating to”.

15 In section 3 of the 1938 Act (offence of practising while not registered), in the proviso—

(a) in paragraph (a), omit “of the Council” and “subsection (2) of section six of”, and

(b) for paragraphs (b) and (c) substitute—

“(b) in a case where the contravention is occasioned by the removal of the defendant’s name from the Register in circumstances in which notice is required to be served on him—

(i) that the notice had not been duly served before that date,

(ii) that the time for bringing an appeal against the removal had not expired at that date, or

(iii) that such an appeal had been duly brought, but had not been determined, before that date.”.

16 In section 5 of the 1938 Act (construction and citation), in subsection (2), for the words from “Acts 1931 and” to the end substitute “Act 1931”.

17 For section 6(1) of the 1938 Act (application to Northern Ireland) substitute—

“(1) This Act extends to Northern Ireland.”.