Architects (Amendment) Act 1957 (NSW)

ARCHITECTS (AMENDMENT) ACT.

Act No. 41 , 1957.

An Act to make further provision relating to the registration of architects and the appoint­ ment of officers of the Board of Architects; for these and other purposes to amend the Architects Act, 1921-1946; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented to, 28th November, 1957.]

lative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South	BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legis­
Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the "Architects (Amendment) Act, 1957."
(2) The Architects Act, 1921, as amended by sub­ sequent Acts and by this Act, may be cited as the Archi­ tects Act, 1921-1957.
(3) This Act shall commence upon a day to be appointed by the Governor and notified by proclamation published in the Gazette.

thereof

2. (1) The Architects Act, 1921-1946, is amended— (a) (i) by inserting in subsection two of section five after the word "Vice-President" the words " o r where there is more than one Vice-President, the senior Vice-President";

(ii)   by omitting from the same subsection the words " the Lecturer in charge of the De­ partment of Architecture at the Sydney Technical College" and by inserting in lieu

thereof the words " the Professor of Archi­ tecture in the New South Wales University of Technology";

(b) by omitting section eight and by inserting in lieu thereof the following section:—

8. The board may appoint a registrar and such other officers as the board may think fit for carrying out the provisions of this Act, and may at any time remove any persons so appointed.

(c)	(i) by omitting subsection three of section 8A;
(ii) by inserting in subsection six of the same section after the word "determine" the words " o r invested by the Colonial Treasurer on behalf of and as recommended by the board in any securities in which trustees are authorised by law to invest

trust funds" ;

(d)	by omitting from subsection one of section ten the words " in the month of" and by inserting in lieu thereof the words " a s soon as practicable after the first day of";
(e)	by omitting section eleven and by inserting in lieu thereof the following section:—

11. (1) Every architect shall before the thirty-first day of July in each year pay to the registrar the prescribed roll fee for the year commencing on the first day of January immediately preceding the said thirty-first day

of July.

(2) If any architect does not pay the pre­ scribed roll fee before the thirty-first day of July in any year the board shall forthwith notify him by registered letter addressed to him at the address appearing in the register that if the fee be not paid before the first day of November next following his name will be removed from the register. If any architect who has been so notified fails to pay such fee before the said first day of November, the board shall remove his name from the register.

(3)

(3) If the name of any architect is re­ moved from the register under this section, the board shall, upon application in the prescribed form, restore his name to the register upon payment of such fees as are prescribed. The regulations may provide for the waiver of such fees or part thereof as the board may in a particular case deem proper.

(f) (i) by inserting in paragraph (b) of subsection one of section thirteen after the words "University of Sydney" the words " the New South Wales University of Tech­ nology";

(ii)   by inserting next after paragraph (ci) of the same subsection the following new paragraph:—

(cii) is entitled to practise architecture in any part of Her Majesty's dominions which under subsection four of this section has been de­ clared to be and is a reciprocating State for the purpose of this Act; or;

(iii)  by inserting at the end of the same section the following new subsections:—

(4) Where the board is satisfied that a

Act is, under the law in force in any part of person registered as an architect under this

Her Majesty's dominions outside this State,

entitled to practise architecture in such par t of Her Majesty's dominions, the board may, by notification published in the Gazette declare that, whilst such notification re­ mains in force, such par t of Her Majesty's dominions shall be a reciprocating State for the purposes of this Act.

The board may, if it thinks fit, revoke any such notification.

(5)

(5) In this section a reference to "Her Majesty's dominions" includes a reference to any territory which is under Her Majesty's protection and to any territory, the subject of a trusteeship agreement approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations, which is under the adminis- tration of a government of any part of Her Majesty's dominions.

(2) Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (f) of subsec- tion one of this section shall be deemed to have commenced upon the sixteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-five.