ARCHITECTS AND QUANTITY SURVEYORS

CHAPTER 53:02
ARCHITECTS AND QUANTITY SURVEYORS

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

    SECTION

PART I
PRELIMINARY

    1.    Short title

    2.    Interpretation

PART II
ADMINISTRATION

Division A
Board of Architects and Quantity Surveyors

    3.    Establishment of the Board

    4.    Composition of the Board

    5.    Disqualifications

    6.    Tenure of office of members of the Board and vacancies thereon

    7.    Remuneration of members of the Board

    8.    Secretary/Registrar

    9.    Other staff of the Board

    10.    Meetings of the Board

    11.    Committees of the Board

    12.    Co-opted persons

    13.    Minutes of Board and Committee meetings

Division B
Powers of the Board

    14.    Powers of the Board

    15.    Power of the Board to make rules

    16.    Non-liability of members of the Board

PART III
FINANCIAL AND ACCOUNTANCY PROVISIONS

    17.    Funds of the Board

    18.    Investment of surplus sums

    19.    Borrowing powers

    20.    Financial year of the Board

    21.    Books, accounts, audits and reports

PART IV
REGISTRATION

    22.    Registers

    23.    Architects and Quantity Surveyors must be registered

    24.    Applications to the Board

    25.    Qualification for registration as an Architect

    26.    Qualification for registration as a Graduate Architect

    27.    Qualification for registration as an Architectural Technician

    28.    Qualification for registration as a Quantity Surveyor

    29.    Qualification for registration as a Graduate Quantity Surveyor

    30.    Qualification for registration as a Quantity Surveying Technician

    31.    Certificate of registration

    32.    Correction of registers

PART V
DISCIPLINARY PROVISIONS

    33.    Suspension or striking out of register of Architects or Quantity Surveyors

    34.    Suspension or striking out of register of Graduate Architects, Architectural Technicians, Graduate Quantity Surveyors or Quantity Surveying Technicians

PART VI
OFFENCES

    35.    Unlawful practice of architecture or quantity surveying

    36.    Unlawful use of descriptions

    37.    Unlawful employment of non-registered person

    38.    Fraudulent entries and copies

PART VII
MISCELLANEOUS

    39.    Use of title

    40.    Execution of certificates or other documents

    41.    Regulations

    42.    Appeals

    43.    Repeal of Cap. 53:02 and savings

29 of 1991
G.N. 72/1992

    An Act to provide for matters relating to the professions of architecture and quantity surveying in Malawi and to the qualifications, registration and control of the members thereof; to establish the Board of Architects and Quantity Surveyors, a body corporate, as the qualifying, registering and disciplinary authority of such professions; and to provide for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto

PART I
PRELIMINARY

1.    Short title

    This Act may be cited as the Architects and Quantity Surveyors Act.

2.    Interpretation

    In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

    “approved institution” means any university, institute, college or school of architecture or quantity surveying approved by the Board pursuant to section 14 (b);

    “Board” means the Board of Architects and Quantity Surveyors established by section 3;

    “Chairman” means the Chairman of the Board designated by the Minister pursuant to section 4 (3);

    “financial year” means the financial year of the Board as provided by section 20;

    “register” means the register of Architects, or the register of Graduate Architects, or the register of Architectural Technicians, or the register of Quantity Surveyors, or the register of Graduate Quantity Surveyors, or the register of Quantity Surveying Technicians, as the case may be, maintained by the Board pursuant to section 22;

    “Registrar” means the Secretary;

    “Secretary” means the Secretary to the Board designated by the Minister pursuant to section 8; and

    “Vice-Chairman” means the Vice-Chairman of the Board designated by the Minister pursuant to section 4 (3).

PART II
ADMINISTRATION

Division A
board of architects and quantity surveyors

3.    Establishment of the Board

    (1) There is hereby established a Board under the name of the Board of Architects and Quantity Surveyors (in this Act referred to as the “Board”) which shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal, with power to alter and change the same from time to time, and shall, under that name, be capable of suing and being sued and, subject to the provisions of this Act, of purchasing or otherwise acquiring, holding or alienating property, real or personal, and of doing all such acts and things as bodies corporate may by law do or perform.

    (2) The common seal of the Board shall be authenticated by the signatures of the Chairman, or of the person for the time being performing the functions of Chairman, and of one other member of the Board designated by the Board for such purpose, and any document purporting to be sealed with the seal of the Board and so authenticated shall be admissible in evidence of the particulars stated in that document.

    (3) The Board may…