Queensland Consolidated Acts

ARCHITECTS ACT 2002 - SECT 20

20 Deciding application

(1) The board must consider an accepted application and either renew or refuse to renew the registration as soon as practicable after the last of the following events to happen—

(a) the board receives the application;

(b) the board receives all necessary information to decide the application.

(2) In deciding the application, the board must have regard to—

(a) whether the board considers the applicant is fit to practise as an architect; and

(b) the extent, if any, to which the applicant has satisfied the continuing registration requirements.

(3) Also, for an application for renewal of registration as a non-practising architect, the board must be satisfied that the applicant will not carry out, or be responsible for the carrying out of, architectural services within the registration period to which the application relates.

(4) In considering whether an applicant is fit to practise as an architect, the board may have regard to the same matters to which the board may have regard in deciding whether an applicant for registration is fit to practise as an architect.

Note—

For the matters the board may have regard to in deciding if an applicant for registration is fit to practise as an architect, see section 11 (Fitness to practise as an architect).

(5) In this section—

"accepted application" means an application made under section 18 (2) or an application the board accepts under section 18 (4) .