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Architects Act 1997
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Part IU.K. The Architects Registration Board
1 The Board.U.K.
(1)There shall continue to be a body corporate known as the Architects Registration Board.
(2)There shall continue to be a Professional Conduct Committee of the Board.
(3)Part I of Schedule 1 makes provision about the Board.
(4)Part II of that Schedule makes provision about the Professional Conduct Committee.
(5)Part III of that Schedule gives the Board power to establish other committees and makes provision about committees established by the Board.
(6)Part IV of that Schedule makes general provision about the Board and its committees.
[F11ADesignation of the Board as competent authorityU.K.
(1)The Board is designated as the competent authority in the United Kingdom for the purposes of the Directive so far as relating to architects.
(2)The designation under subsection (1) does not extend to the awarding of degrees, diplomas or other qualifications in architecture.
(3)Accordingly, the Board shall in the United Kingdom carry out (in particular) the mutual-recognition functions so far as relating to architects.
(4)The carrying-out of the following functions in the United Kingdom is not entrusted to the Board by subsection (3)—
(a)the function of awarding degrees, diplomas or other qualifications in architecture;
(b)any other mutual-recognition functions the carrying out of which, so far as relating to architects, is entrusted to the Board or any other person by or under any enactment other than this section.
(5)In this section “mutual-recognition functions” means the functions specified in the Directive that a Member State, in giving effect to the Directive, must or may cause to become functions of the State’s competent authorities.]
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