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ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE ACT 2009 (NO 16 OF 2009) - SECT 40

40—Use of certain titles or descriptions prohibited

        (1)         A natural person who is not a registered architect must not use a prescribed word, or its derivatives, to describe himself or herself or a service that he or she personally provides.

Maximum penalty: $50 000.

        (2)         A body corporate that is not a registered architectural business must not use a prescribed word, or its derivatives, to describe the body corporate or a service that the body corporate provides.

Maximum penalty: $50 000.

        (3)         A person who is a partner in a partnership that is not a registered architectural business must not use a prescribed word, or its derivatives, to describe the partnership or a service that the partnership provides.

Maximum penalty: $50 000.

        (4)         A person must not, in the course of advertising or promoting a service that he or she, or a partnership in which he or she is a partner, provides, use a prescribed word, or its derivatives, to describe a person who is engaged in the provision of the service or the partnership if the person or partnership is not a registered architect or registered architectural business, as the case requires.

Maximum penalty: $50 000.

        (5)         In this section—

"prescribed word" means—

            (a)         architect; or

            (b)         any other word or expression prescribed by the regulations.



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