Section 8 Retention of name in Register.

(1)

The Board may require a registered person to pay a retention fee of a prescribed amount if he wishes his name to be retained in F1... the Register in any calendar year after that in which it was entered.

(2)

Where, after the Registrar has sent a registered person who is liable to pay a retention fee a written demand for the payment of the fee, the person fails to pay the fee within the prescribed period, the Registrar may remove the person’s name from ... the Register.

(3)

Where a person whose name has been removed from ... the Register under subsection (2) pays the retention fee, together with any further prescribed fee, before the end of the calendar year for which the retention fee is payable or such longer period as the Board may allow—

(a)

his name shall be re-entered in ... the Register (without his having to make an application under section 4 F2...); and

(b)

if the Board so directs, it shall be treated as having been re-entered on the date on which it was removed.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in s. 8 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Architects Act 1997 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/717), regs. 1(2), 12 (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)
F2: Words in s. 8(3)(a) omitted (20.6.2008) by virtue of Architects (Recognition of European Qualifications etc and Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1331), regs. 1, 12(b)