# Architects Act 1997, Section 16: Penalty orders.


(1) Where a penalty order is made in relation to a registered person, he shall pay to the Board the sum specified in the order.
(2) A penalty order may not specify a sum exceeding the amount which, at the relevant time, is the amount specified as level 4 on the standard scale of fines for summary offences.
In this subsection “the relevant time” means—
(a) in a case within subsection (1)(a) of section 15, the time of the conduct or incompetence of which the registered person is found guilty; and
(b) in a case within subsection (1)(b) of that section, the time when he committed the criminal offence of which he has been convicted.
(3) A penalty order shall specify the period within which the sum specified in it is to be paid.
(4) If the person in relation to whom a penalty order is made does not pay the sum specified in the order within the period so specified, the Professional Conduct Committee may make a suspension order or an erasure order in relation to him.
(5) The Board shall pay into the Consolidated Fund any sum paid under a penalty order.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/22/section/16 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/architects-act-1997/section-16
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