Architects (Registration) Acts 1931 to 1938: Difference between revisions

| long_title = An Act to amend the Architects (Registration) Act, 1931.

| royal_assent = 25 July 1934

* '''Architects (Registration) Act 1931''' ([[21 & 22 Geo. 5]]. c. 33);<ref>[http://www.aaruk.info/Legislation/Act31.PDF 21 & 22 Geo. 5. CH.33]</ref>

These Actsacts have been amended and have been replaced as amended by the [[Architects Act 1997]],<ref>[http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/22 Chapter 22]</ref> with effect from 21 July 1997.

By subsection 18(1), the originating Actact of 1931 was to come into operation on 1 January 1932, save as otherwise provided in the Act; and by subsection 18(2), it was to extend to [[Northern Ireland]] only if an [[Order in Council]] was made to that effect. On the 1938 Act coming into force, the 1931 Actact was to be construed as one with the Architects (Registration) Act, 1934 and the Architects Registration Act, 1938; those three Acts could be cited together as the Architects (Registration) Acts, 1931 to 1938; and in the 1938 Act the expression "principal Act" meant the Architects (Registration) Act, 1931.

'''The Architects (Registration) Acts, 1931 to 1938''' required the Architects' Registration Council of the United Kingdom (ARCUK) ("the Council") to set up, maintain and publish annually a register, in the manner prescribed by the Acts.

The governing Actact for the keeping and publication of the Register in the prescribed manner is now the [[Architects Act 1997]]. Its [[long title]] is:

It can be inferred that someSome risk of conceptual confusion about regulation has resulted from an apparent need to let the native language accommodate terms derived from the habitual idiom of [[Directive (European Union)|directives]] and other documents issued by the [[European Union]], formerly known as the [[European Economic Community]], including [[Directive 85/384/EEC]],<ref>[http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31985L0384:EN:HTML 31985L0384]</ref> referred to in the Architects Act 1997 in connection with the recognition of qualifications acquired in an EEA ([[European Economic Area]]) state. The directive of 10 June 1985 was headed "on the mutual recognition of diplomas, certificates and other evidence of formal qualifications in architecture, including measures to facilitate the effective exercise of the right of establishment and freedom to provide services".

This has been regularly recited in EU directives, such as [[Directive 2005/36/EC]]<ref>[http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/en/oj/2005/l_255/l_25520050930en00220142.pdf L255/22 30.0.2005]</ref> of 7 September 2005 "on recognition of professional qualifications". That abolishing of obstacles has brought in its train a series of directives by which the EEC/[[European Economic Community|EC]]/[[European Union|EU]] had been carrying out its functions vis-à-vis member states in connection with the mutual recognition of the qualifications of architects and certain other professions. It was pursuant to those directives that a person from one member state (or certain other states) wishing to practise in another might be required to produce a certificate of qualification; and that in the United Kingdom, the Architects Registration Board has been acting as the "Competent Authority" in respect of architects.

[[Architects Act 1997 : amendment of June 2008 under the European Communities Act 1972|Revised arrangements]] were introduced in June 2008, pursuant to EU [[Directive 2005/36/EC]]. This Directive defines "competent authority" among other things as a body empowered by a Member State specifically to receive the applications and to take the decisions referred to in the Directive; and "regulated profession" as a professional activity one of the modes of pursuit of which is subject by virtue of legislative provision to the possession of specific professional qualifications.