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Architects Amendment Act 1979

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Short Title

Qualifications for membership

Classification of Licentiate abolished

Architects Amendment Act 1979

Public Act		1979 No 77
Date of assent		13 December 1979

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Qualifications for membership
3	Classification of Licentiate abolished
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Architects Act 1963

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Architects Amendment Act 1979, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Architects Act 1963 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Qualifications for membership

The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing section 12, and substituting the following section:

“12

“(1)

Subject to the provisions of this section, the following persons shall be eligible for election to membership of the Institute, namely:

“(a)

Every person who is registered as an architect under this Act:

“(b)

Every person who is the holder of a recognised certificate as defined in section 16(3) of this Act.

“(2)

Every member of the Institute who is not a registered architect shall—

“(a)

Notwithstanding anything in section 14 of this Act, remain without classification under that section; and

“(b)

If convicted of an offence against section 53(1) of this Act, be liable to be suspended or expelled from the Institute for that offence, whether or not any penalty is imposed on him for the offence.

“(3)

A person who is a member of the Institute but who is not a registered architect commits an offence against section 53(1) of this Act only if, in carrying on business in New Zealand, he uses, or causes or permits to be used in connection with his name or business or with the name under which he carries on business,—

“(a)

The written words ‘registered architect’ or any combination of written words that include the words ‘registered architect’ or any written words, initials, or abbreviations of words intended to cause or which may reasonably cause any person to believe that he is a registered architect; or

“(b)

Any of the words or initials proscribed, in the case of a person who is not a member of the Institute, by section 53(3) of this Act.”

3 Classification of Licentiate abolished

(1)

Section 14(1) of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the words “or Licentiate”.

(2)

Section 53(3) of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting both the words “or ‘Licentiate of the New Zealand Institute of Architects’” and the words “or ‘L.N.Z.I.A.’”

This Act is administered in the Department of Internal Affairs.

Architects Amendment Act 1979