10. Section 12 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows :-
| (1) by the substitution for the marginal note to that section, of the following marginal note- |
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| (2) in subsection (2) of that section by the decision of the words "of architects"; |
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| (3) by the insertion of the following subsection immediately after subsection (3) of that section :-
| | "(3) The council may permit the formation of any private company by persons who are corporate members of the Institute or Architects registered under this Law, or persons registered under this Law, or any persons registered under any Law, for the time being in force as Engineers, planners and other professional the memorandum or articles of which ensure that all the directors of such company and their successors shall be persons, registered under this Law or persons registered as Engineers, planners or other prescribed professionals to take and use the titles "Chartered Architects" or "Architects" or "Chartered Architects and Engineers" or "Architect and Engineers, as the case may be, as part of the description of such company (provided the directors of such company forward the memorandum and articles of such company and any amendments thereto, to the Institute together with a declaration made annually by all Directors of the company for the time being that they shall abide by the code of professional conduct of the Institute) and it shall be lawful for each one of the Directors and share holders of such company who are duty qualified and entitled to practice as such to append to his name the title and initials which he is entitled to take and use under the provisions of this section". | | |
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| (4) by the repeal subsection (4) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following subsections :-
| | (4) except as provided in this section, no person, firm, body of persons, or company shall take or use the titles "Chartered Architect", "Chartered Architects", "Architect", "Architects", "Architectural Licentiate", "Architectural Licentiates or the initials " F.I.A."( Sri Lanka)" or "A.I.A.(Sri Lanka)". or any abbreviation thereof or any equivalent thereto, in any language, whether with or without any addition thereto, or use the same as the name or discription or part of the name or description of any firm, business or body of persons, or in any book, journal or other publication dealing with Architecture, design or the practice of the profession of architecture. | | |
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| (5) Every Chartered Architect, Architects or Architectural Licentiate, registered under this Law, shall be entitled to take or use the title "Chartered Architect", "Architect", or Architectural Licentiate", as the case may be. |
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| (6) A firm, each of the partners of which is a Chartered Architect or an Architect or an Architectural Licentiate, registered under this Law, shall be entitled to take and use the title "Chartered Architect", "Architect" or "Architectural Licentiate", as the case may be ; |
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| (7) Where on or more of the partners of a firm are Chartered Architects, Architects or Architectural Licentiates, registered under this Law, the Council may permit such firm to take and use the title "Chartered Architect", "Chartered Architects", "Architect", "Architects" or
"Architectural Licentiate" or "Architectural Licentiates" as the case may be, as part of the description of such firm provided that the remaining partners are members of such other prescribed professions. |
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| (8) Where the partners of a firm consist of one or more Architectural Licentiate as well as other persons who are non Corporate Members or Registered Members of the Institute the title "Chartered Architects" shall not be used as the description, or part of the description, of such firm : |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts