Section 16: Maintenance of Register, etc
The Pakistan Council of Architects and Town Planners Ordinance, 1983 · Departmental Laws · Legal status not independently verified
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16. Maintenance of Register, etc .—(1) The Council shall maintain in the prescribed manner— (a) two separate Registers in which shall be entered the names and other particulars of persons possessing recognised architectural qualifications or, as the case may be, town planning qualifications whose applications for registratio n as architects or town planners are from time to time granted by the Council; and 1 Subs. by the Pakistan Council of Architects and Town Planners (Amdt.) Ordinance, 1984 (41 of 1984), s. 5, for fullstop. 2 Proviso added ibid. (b) two separate Lists, hereinafter referred to as the Lists, in which shall be entered the names and other particulars of persons not possessing any of the aforesaid qualifications who were licensed as architects or, as the case may be, town planners by any public sector agency before the date appointed under subsection (1) of section 28 and who are declared by the Executive Committee, after carrying out proper scrutiny by way of examination or otherwise, to be eligible to practise as unregistered architects or unregistered town planners, as the case may be. (2) Every application for registration under this Ordinance, or for the inclusion of name in either of the Lists, shall be made to the Council in the prescribed form and be accompanied by the prescribed fee. (3) Every person whose name is entered in a Register or in either of the Lists shall be entitled to receive a certificate of registration or, as the case may be, a certificate of entry of name in the List, under the hand of the Registrar. (4) A certificate issued under subsection (3) shall, subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, remain in force until the thirtyfirst day of December of the year in which it is issued and shall thereafter be renewable annually upon payment of the prescribed fee.
Effective date: 1983-01-01
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