Architects Amendment Act 1986 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

ARCHITECTS AMENDMENT ACT

No. 25 of 1986

AN ACT to amend the Architects Act 1921.

[Assented to 29 July 1986.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the

advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Architects Amendment Act 1986.

Commencement

2. This Act shall come into operation on such day as is fixed by

proclamation.

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Principal Act

3.    In this Act the Architects Act 1921* is referred to as the principal

Act.

[*Reprinted as approved 30 April 1979 and amended by Acts Nos. 67 of

1981 and 10 of 1982.]

Section 14 amended

4.    Section 14 of the principal Act is amended in subsection (1) by

deleting paragraph (b).

Section 15 amended

5.     Section 15 of the principal Act is amended

(a)	in subsection (4), by deleting "such application" and substituting the following-
" " application under subsection (1) "; and
(b)	by inserting after subsection (4) the following subsections -

(5) In considering any preliminary application under subsection (la) the Board may pay such fees and disburse- ments as it thinks fit in dealing with the preliminary appli- cation and, subject to subsection (6), may require that the person making the preliminary application pay or contrib- ute towards the whole or any part of those fees or disburse- ments.

(6) The Board shall not require a payment or contri- bution under subsection (5) from a person in respect of a preliminary application made before the coming into oper- ation of the Architects Amendment Act 1986 but any amount paid by that person as a fee in respect of the mak- ing of that application shall be taken to have been properly received by the Board. ".

Section 26 amended

6. Section 26 of the principal Act is amended in subsection (3) (b) by

deleting "two" and substituting the following-

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Section 28 amended

7. (1) Section 28 of the principal Act is amended in subsection (1)(e)

by deleting "architects" and substituting the following-

" registered architects, practising corporations and practising firms,

respectively, ".

(2) A by-law made under section 28 (1) (e) of the principal Act before the day on which this Act is assented to shall be deemed to have been as validly and effectively made, and any amount paid thereunder by way of annual subscription shall be deemed to have been as properly received, as if subsection (1) had then been in operation.