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| Citation | SI 2008/1331 |
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| Text of the Architects (Recognition of European Qualifications etc and Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2008 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk. | |
The Architects Act 1997 was amended in 2008 by a statutory instrument made by a minister of the United Kingdom government under the European Communities Act 1972.[1] This was the Architects (Recognition of European Qualifications etc and Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2008,[2] which came into force on 20 June 2008. An Explanatory Memorandum was issued with the Regulations and a fuller Explanatory Memorandum presented to Parliament.
The Architects Act 1997 had resulted from the policy of allowing certain restrictions to apply (for well over 60 years, in the United Kingdom) to the use of the simple word "architect" in connection with a statutory Register of Architects operated under Westminster primary legislation by which the executant body was renamed as the Architects Registration Board from 1997 (previously the Architects' Registration Council of the United Kingdom). The amendment (under the European Communities Act 1972) has introduced pages of complicated text to a piece of legislation which was otherwise tolerably trim, neat and comprehensible in its consolidated form in the 1997 Act. But the amendment has been made pursuant to Directive 2005/36/EC made in 2005[3] and the treaty obligations binding upon the United Kingdom and other states of the European Union, and in that respect an amendment under the European Directive was inevitable.
- ^ An unofficial copy of the amended text of the Act may be found on RIBApedia Archived November 19, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ S.I. 2008 No. 1331
- ^ Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council