Section 1 Use of title “Architect.”

United Kingdom

(1)

Subject to the provisions of this Act, a person shall not practise or carry on business under any name, style or title containing the word “Architect” unless he is a person registered under the principal Act:

Provided that nothing in this section shall affect—

(a)

the use of the designation “Naval architect,” “Landscape architect” or “Golf-course architect,” or

(b)

the validity of any building contract in customary form; . . . F1

F2(1A)

In this Act (and in section 17 of the principal Act) “business” includes any undertaking which is carried on for gain or reward or in the course of which services are provided otherwise than free of charge.

(2)

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C1(3)

For F4. . . the words “Registered Architect” in section seventeen of that Act, there shall be . . . substituted . . . and the word “Architect.”

4)—(5)

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Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. VII
F2: S. 1(1A) inserted (1.4.1997) by 1996 c. 53, s. 123(1), Sch. 2 Pt. II paras. 31, 34(2); S.I. 1996/2842, art.4
F3: S. 1(2) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. VII
F4: Words in s. 1 repealed (1.4.1997) by 1996 c. 53, s. 147, Sch. 3 Pt.II; S.I. 1996/2842, art.4
F5: S. 1 (4)(5) repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1950 (c. 6)

Modifications

C1: The text of s. 1(3) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1: Act repealed (21.7.1997) by 1997 c. 22, s. 27, Sch.3 (with Sch. 2); S.I. 1997/1672, art.2