Architects (Registration) Act 1931

13 Regulations, &c

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, regulations made by the Council shall or may, as the case may be, prescribe anything which is by this Act , required or authorised to be prescribed, and may further make provision—

(a) prescribing the fee (hereafter in this section referred to as " a retention fee ") to be paid in respect of the retention of any name in the Register during any calendar year subsequent to that in which the name was entered in the Register, and the fees to be paid by candidates for any examination held under this Act;

(b) prescribing the information to be furnished to the Admission Committee or the Council in connection with any application for registration under this Act;

(c) providing (subject to such restrictions or conditions as may be prescribed) for the delegation to committees of any of the functions of the Council other than functions under section six or section seven of this Act;

(d) regulating the meetings and procedure (including quorum) of the Council, the Board and any committee appointed under this Act;

(e) for the filling of casual vacancies in the Council, the Board and any such committee as aforesaid;

(f) generally for carrying out or facilitating the purposes of this Act:

Provided that no regulations affecting the Board or the Admission Committee shall be made by the Council without consultation with the Board or the Admission Committee, as the case may be.

(2) No regulations made under this Act shall be of any force or validity unless and until they have been approved by the Privy Council, and the Privy Council shall, before giving their approval, cause the regulations to be published and give persons to whom the regulations are applicable an opportunity of making representations to the Privy Council thereon.

(3) The powers conferred on the Privy Council by this section may be exercised by any two or more of the Lords and others for the time being of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council.

(4) Any act of the Privy Council under this section shall be sufficiently signified by an instrument signed by the clerk of the Privy Council, and every order and act signified by an instrument purporting to be so signed shall be deemed to have been duly made and done by the Privy Council, and every instrument purporting to be so signed shall be received in evidence in all courts and proceedings without proof of the authority or signature of the clerk of the Privy Council or other proof.

(5) If any registered person, within the prescribed period after the date on which the Council have caused to be sent to him a written demand for payment of any retention fee payable by him, fails to pay that fee to the Council, the Council may cause his name to be removed from the Register, but if, within the year in respect of which the fee is payable or within such longer period as the Council may allow, the said person pays to the Council the retention fee, together with such additional sum (if any) by way of penalty as may be prescribed, his name shall be restored to the Register, and, if the Council so direct, the restoration shall have effect as from the date on which his name was removed from the Register.