The purpose of this Act is to establish a scheme for the registration of professional engineers—
(a) to promote best practice in providing professional engineering services; and
(b) to ensure that professional engineering services are provided only by suitably qualified and experienced engineers; and
(c) to provide for the endorsement of registration authorising a registered professional engineer to be engaged in the building industry; and
(d) to provide appropriate protection to consumers of professional engineering services provided by registered professional engineers; and
(e) to make consequential amendments to other Acts.