{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/architects-act-1997/section-6A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/architects-act-1997/section-6A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1997/22",
  "legislation_title": "Architects Act 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/architects-act-1997",
  "path": "section/6A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6A",
  "heading": "Issuing of certificates of architectural education",
  "text": "(1) Where a person requests the Board to issue a certificate of architectural education confirming that the person’s training as an architect—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) gives that person entitlement under section 4 to be registered ..., or\n(c) includes prescribed or equivalent qualifications,\nthe Board may issue such a certificate to that person if the training ... gives that entitlement or includes those qualifications.\n(2) The Board may require a person making a request under subsection (1) to pay a fee of a prescribed amount.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 6A inserted (20.6.2008) by Architects (Recognition of European Qualifications etc and Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1331), regs. 1, 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 6A(1)(a) omitted (7.2.2023) by virtue of The Architects Act 1997 (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/50), regs. 1(3), 3(5)(a) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 6A(1)(b) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Architects Act 1997 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/717), regs. 1(2), 11 (with regs. 22-47) (as amended by S.I. 2019/810, regs. 1(3), 4 and S.I. 2020/1038, regs. 1(3), Sch. 3 para. 4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 6A(1) omitted (7.2.2023) by virtue of The Architects Act 1997 (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/50), regs. 1(3), 3(5)(b) (with reg. 5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/22/section/6A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:27:17.182057+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}