# Architects Registration Act 1938 (repealed 21.7.1997), Section 1: Use of title “Architect.”

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(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; . . .
(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) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(3) For . . . the words “Registered Architect” in section seventeen of that Act, there shall be . . . substituted . . . and the word “Architect.”
4)—(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/1-2/54/section/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/architects-registration-act-1938-repealed-2171997/section-1
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