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25 Interpretation.U.K.
[F1(1)]In this Act—
“the Board” means the Architects Registration Board;
[F2 “competent authority” means any authority or body designated by a relevant European State for the purposes of the Directive as competent to—
(a)issue, or receive, evidence of qualifications or other information or documents, or
(b)receive applications, and take the decisions, referred to in the Directive,
in connection with the profession of architect;]
[F3“the Directive” means Council Directive 2005/36/EC on the recognition of professional qualifications as it had effect immediately before IP completion day and any reference to the Directive includes (without prejudice to the operation of section 20A of the Interpretation Act 1978) a reference to the Directive as extended by the EEA Agreement and by the Swiss Agreement as those Agreements had effect immediately before IP completion day;]
F4...
“disciplinary order” has the meaning given by section 15;
[F5“disqualifying decision”, in relation to any person, means a decision which—
(a)is made by a competent authority of a relevant European State F6..., and
(b)has the effect in that State that the person is no longer lawfully established as an architect there or that the person is prohibited (even temporarily) from practising as an architect there;]
F7...
“erasure order” shall be construed in accordance with section 18;
F7...
F7...
“penalty order” shall be construed in accordance with section 16;
“prescribed” means prescribed by rules made by the Board and “prescribe” means prescribe by rules;
“the Register” means the Register of Architects;
“registered person” means a person whose name is in the Register;
“the Registrar” means the Registrar of Architects;
[F8 “relevant European State” means an EEA State [F9or Switzerland]; ]
“suspension order” shall be construed in accordance with section 17; F10...
[F11“the Swiss Agreement” means the Agreement between the European Community and its member States, of the one part, and the Swiss Confederation, of the other, on the free movement of persons signed at Luxembourg on 21st June 1999;]
[F12“third country” means a country other than a relevant European State; and]
“unacceptable professional conduct” has the meaning given by section 14.
F13(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 25 (which becomes subsection (1)) inserted (23.12.2002) by S.I. 2002/2842, art. 6(1)
F2Words in s. 25(1) substituted (20.6.2008) by Architects (Recognition of European Qualifications etc and Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1331), regs. 1, 22(1)(a)
F3Words in s. 25(1) substituted (31.12.2020 immediately after S.I. 2019/717 comes into force) by The Architects Act 1997 (Swiss Qualifications) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/810), regs. 1(3), 3; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1) (as amended by The Professional Qualifications and Services (Amendments and Miscellaneous Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1038), regs. 1(3), 8(a))
F4Words in s. 25 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Architects Act 1997 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/717), regs. 1(2), 19(b) (with regs. 22-47) (as amended by S.I. 2019/810, regs. 1(3), 4 and S.I. 2020/1038, regs. 1(3), Sch. 3 para. 4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F5Words in s. 25(1) substituted (20.6.2008) by Architects (Recognition of European Qualifications etc and Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1331), regs. 1, 22(1)(c)
F6Words in s. 25 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Architects Act 1997 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/717), regs. 1(2), 19(c) (with regs. 22-47) (as amended by S.I. 2019/810, regs. 1(3), 4 and S.I. 2020/1038, regs. 1(3), Sch. 3 para. 4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F7Words in s. 25(1) omitted (20.6.2008) by virtue of Architects (Recognition of European Qualifications etc and Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1331), regs. 1, 22(1)(d)
F8Words in s. 25(1) inserted (20.6.2008) by Architects (Recognition of European Qualifications etc and Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1331), regs. 1, 22(1)(e)
F9Words in s. 25(1) inserted (10.2.2014) by The Architects Act 1997 (Amendments etc) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/4), arts. 1(1), 2(a)
F10Word in s. 25(1) omitted (20.6.2008) by virtue of Architects (Recognition of European Qualifications etc and Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1331), regs. 1, 22(1)(f)
F11Words in s. 25(1) inserted (5.4.2019) by The Architects Act 1997 (Swiss Qualifications) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/810), regs. 1(2), 2(b)
F12Words in s. 25(1) inserted (20.6.2008) by Architects (Recognition of European Qualifications etc and Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1331), regs. 1, 22(1)(f)
F13S. 25(2) omitted (20.6.2008) by virtue of Architects (Recognition of European Qualifications etc and Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1331), regs. 1, 22(2)
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