Appointment and duties
of authorized architects
Appointmeat
and powers
of disciplinary
board.
(5) In respect of every application for inclusion in the architects' register, the Building Authority shall within three months-
(a) upon payment by the applicant of the prescribed fee publish in the Gazette and cpter in the architects' register the name of the applicant; or (b) inform the applicant that his application is deferred for a period not exceeding twelve months;
or
(c) refuse the application.
(6) Any person, whose application for registration is: refused, may appeal to a disciplinary board appointed: under section 5.
(7) The Building Authority may remove from the architects' register the name of any person who ceases, for any reason, to practise.
4.
(1) Every person for whom building works or street works are to be carried out shall appoint an authorized architect in respect thereof.
(2) If an authorized architect so appointed becomes unwilling to act or unable, whether by reason of the termi nation of his appointment or for any other reason, to ach the person for whom the building works or street works are to be or are being carried out shall appoint another authorized architect in his stead.
(3) An authorized architect so appointed shall— (a) supervise the carrying out of the building works or street works, as the case may be, in the manner prescribed by regulations;
(b) notify the Building Authority of any contravention of the regulations which would result from the carrying out of any work shown in any plan approved by the Building Authority in respect of the building works or street works; and (c) comply generally with the provisions of this
Ordinance.
5. (1) For the purposes of subsection (6) of section
3 and section SB. the Governor may, from time to time,
on application made to him by the Building Authority, appoint a disciplinary board.
(2) Every such board shall consist of
(a) three authorized architects;
(b) the Building Authority or his representative; and
Appeals under section 3(6)
Disciplinary proceedings
in respect
(c) a legal adviser.
(3) The Building Authority or bis representative shall be the chairman of any such disciplinary board and, where any such board is appointed for the purposes of section 5B, the legal adviser shall have the conduct of the inquiry.
(4) For the purposes of any inquiry under section 58, a disciplinary board appointed under this section shall have all such powers as are vested in the Supreme Court in relation to-
(a) enforcing the attendance of witnesses and examin-
ing them upon oath or otherwise:
(b) compelling the production of documents;
(e) ordering the inspection of premises; and
(d) entering upon and viewing premises.
SA. (1) Upon an appeal under subsection (6) of section 3, the disciplinary board may either--
(a) confirm the decision of the Building Authority; or (b) direct that
(i) the appellant's name be entered in the architects" register; or
(ii) the appellant appear before the Building Authority at a professional interview as required by regulations; or
(iii) the appellant pay the prescribed fee and pass an examination as required by regulations.
(2) The decision of the disciplinary board shall be final.
5B. (1) Where it appears to the Building Authority that an authorized architect has been convicted by any of authorized court of such an offence or has been guilty of such negli- architects. gence or misconduct as-
(a) readers the architect unfit to be on the architects"
register; or
(5) makes the further inclusion on the architects' register of the architect prejudicial to the duc administration of this Ordinance; or
(c) renders the architect deserving of censure,
the Building Authority may bring the matter to the notice of a disciplinary board appointed under section 5.
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