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.