The Architects' Qualifications (EEC Recognition) Order 1987

Recognition of European Community architectural qualifications

5.  After section 6 of the 1931 Act there shall be inserted the following section—

“European qualifications.

6A.— (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, a national of a member State who satisfies any of the requirements set out in subsection (2) shall on application made to the Council in the prescribed manner and on payment of the prescribed fee be entitled to be registered in pursuance of this section.

(2) The requirements are that a person—

(a) holds a qualification listed in the Fourth Schedule or, where the course of study leading to that qualification has been started no later than the beginning of the first academic year beginning after 5th August 1987, Part I of the Fifth Schedule to this Act, together with a certificate issued by a competent authority of a member State, in accordance with Article 23 of the Directive, stating that he has gained at least two years practical training experience in that member State under the supervision of a person established as an architect in that member State;

(b) holds a qualification listed in Part II of the Fifth Schedule to the Act where the course of study leading to that qualification has been started no later than the beginning of the first academic year beginning after 5th August 1987, together with a certificate issued by a competent authority of the Federal Republic of Germany, in accordance with Article 4(1) of the Directive, stating that he has gained at least four years appropriate professional experience in the Federal Republic of Germany;

(c) holds a certificate issued by a competent authority of a member State, in accordance with Article 12 of the Directive, stating that he has been, no later than the date on which that member State implemented the Directive, authorised in that member State to use the title of architect and that he has pursued activities in the field of architecture effectively for at least three consecutive years during the five years preceding the issue of the certificate;

(d) holds a certificate issued by a competent authority of a member State, in accordance with Article 5 of the Directive, stating that he is, by reason of his distinguished achievements in the field of architecture, entitled to use the title of architect.

(3) Where a person holds a certificate issued by a competent authority of the Federal Republic of Germany stating that a qualification awarded to that person by an institution in the German Democratic Republic after 8th May 1945 is of equivalent effect to a qualification listed in the Fourth or the Fifth Schedule to this Act, that person shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to hold a qualification listed in the Fourth or, as the case may be, the Fifth Schedule to this Act.

(4) The Council may refuse to register a person in pursuance of this section if they are aware that there is a disqualifying decision in another member State in force in respect of that person.

(5) The Council shall cause a written notice of their decision on any application for registration in pursuance of this section to be served on the applicant within three months of his application being duly made.

(6) If, in pursuance of Article 17(4) or 18(2) of the Directive, the Council consult a member State in respect of an application under this section, the period mentioned in subsection (5) shall be extended by such period as may elapse between initiating the consultation and the receipt by the Council of a final reply from that member State.

(7) A person who is registered in pursuance of this section shall, when using his academic title or any abbreviations of it, express such title or abbreviation in the language or one of the languages of the member State in which the body conferring the title is located and shall follow the title or any abbreviation of it with the name and location of the body conferring the title.”.