Key Benefits:
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
SECTION
PART I
Preliminary
1. Short title
2. Interpretation
PART II
Architects' Registration Council
3. Establishment of Council
4. Seal of Council
5. Membership of Council
6. Institute to elect members
7. Powers and functions of Council
8. Tenure of office
9. Minister's power to appoint members required to be elected
10. Disqualification, removal and resignation
11. Filling of vacancies
12. Alternate and co-opted members
13. Committees of Council
14. Election of Chairperson and Vice Chairperson
15. Meetings of Council
16. Meetings of committees of Council
17. Disclosure of interest
18. Validity of decisions and acts of Council
19. Reports to the Minister
20. Remuneration and allowance
PART III
Registrar, Register and Registration
21. Registrar
22. Register
23. Qualification for registration
24. Procedure for registration
25. Temporary registration
26. Certificate of registration
27. Refusal to register
28. Suspension of registration
29. Removal from the register
30. Restoration of name to the register
31. Appeal against refusal to register, etc.
32. Return of registration certificate to Registrar
33. Register to be prima facie evidence
34. Offences in connection with the register
PART IV
Disciplinary and other Inquiry
35. Inquiries by Council
36. Disregard of summons, etc.
37. Powers of Council at inquiry
38. Disciplinary powers of Council
39. Architect becoming unfit to practise
40. Appeal against decision of Council at inquiry
41. Publication of outcome of proceedings
PART V
Financial Provisions
42. Revenues of Council
43. Financial year
44. Accounts and audit
45. Annual report
PART VI
General
46. Indemnity
47. Transitional provisions
48. Effect of registration
49. Offence and penalty
50. Exemptions
51. Regulations
Act 23, 2008,
S.I. 20, 2009.
An Act to establish the Architects' Registration Council; to provide for the registration of architects; to provide for the regulation of the practice of architecture and for matters incidental thereto.
[Date of Commencement: 23rd March 2009]
This Act may be cited as the Architects' Registration Act.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-
"architect" means a person who is registered as an architect under section 24;
"committee" means a committee of the Council;
"Council" means the Architects' Registration Council established under section 3;
"Chairperson" means the Chairperson of the Council;
"member" means a member of the Council;
"register" means the register of architects established and maintained under section 22; and
"Institute" means a body registered under the Cap. 18:01 Societies Act, which adequately demonstrates to the Minister that it is representative of the majority of architects practising in Botswana at any given time.
