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WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1989

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BILLS SEEK TO ENHANCE PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS

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TWO BILLS AIMED AT ENHANCING AND STANDARDS WERE INTRODUCED (WEDNESDAY).

MAINTAINING

PROFESSIONAL

INTO THE

COUNCIL LEGISLATIVE

TODAY

THEY ARE THE

REGISTRATION ARCHITECTS

BILL

1989

AND

THE

ENGINEERS REGISTRATION BILL 1989.

MOVING THE SECOND READING LANDS AND WORKS, THE HON GRAHAM BARNES, SAID THE FIRST

ΤΟ PROFESSED

BE TO ASSURE THE PUBLIC THAT THOSE WHO

HAD INDEED RECEIVED QUALIFIED ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS TRAINING AND WERE COMPETENT TO PRACTISE IN HONG KONG.

OF EACH

BILL,

THE

SECRETARY FOR OBJECTIVE WAS PROFESSIONALLY APPROPRIATE

DID REGISTRATION

NOT MEAN

HE ADDED THAT THE INTRODUCTION OF THERE WOULD BE A "CLOSED SHOP" OR THAT THE PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTES WOULD BE ABLE TO OPERATE RESTRICTIVE PRACTICES.

"THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE PROFESSIONS INVOLVED THAT THIS LEGISLATION WILL SERVE TO ENHANCE AND MAINTAIN STANDARDS, HE SAID.

IN

H

SUPPORTING

REGISTRATION OF

PROFESSIONAL

ALSO BELIEVE PROFESSIONAL

ARCHITECTS AND

THE

AS

TO

THE

AND THE

CALLED

ENGINEERS, MR BARNES SAID THE ADMINISTRATION HAD RECOGNISED, WITH

CONFUSION IN PROFESSIONS, A CERTAIN

THE PUBLIC MIND DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE VARIOUS ENGINEERING DISCIPLINES,

BETWEEN DIFFERENCE

QUALIFIED ARCHITECTS THEMSELVES ARCHITECTS BUT QUALIFIED.

MIGHT NOT

AND

WHO THOSE NECESSARILY BE PROFESSIONALLY

BE COMPULSORY, BUT USE OF THE TITLE

REGISTRATION OF THOSE QUALIFIED WOULD NOT THERE WOULD BE OBVIOUS BENEFITS ACCRUING FROM THE "REGISTERED ARCHITECT" OR "REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER".

(CLAUSE 291 THAT A THE DISCIPLINE IN AS TO THE

THE ENGINEERS REGISTRATION BILL REQUIRED

SPECIFY SHOULD REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER WHICH HE OR SHE WAS QUALIFIED, SO THAT THERE WAS NO DOUDT ACTUAL FIELD OF EXPERTISE OF THE INDIVIDUAL CONCERNED.

NEVERTHELESS,

PROFESSIONALS

WHO

WERE NOT STILL BE PERMITTED TO PRACTISE IN HONG KONG PROVIDING NOT IMPLY THAT THEY WERE REGISTERED.

•

REGISTERED

WOULD THAT THEY DID

WERE THAT THE PERSON THE MAIN REQUIREMENTS FOR REGISTRATION

HAD AT LEAST ONE YEAR'S PROFESSIONAL WAS ORDINARILY RESIDENT AND

MEETING

RELEVANT ΙΝ

IN EXPERIENCE

ADDITION HONG HONG, ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING STANDARDS.

ΤΟ

THE

LINKED TO THE REGISTRATION INITIALLY WOULD NOT BE CARRY OUT STATUTORY FUNCTIONS UNDER THE BUILDINGS ORDINANCE, THE ADMINISTRATION COULD SEE POTENTIAL BENEFITS AND THIS WOULD BE SOMETHING TO BE SYSTEM HAD BECOME WELL ESTABLISHED.

CONSIDERED

ONCE

IN THIS

THE

RIGHT TO ALTHOUGH

APPLICATION REGISTRATION ·

/MR BARNES