New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ARCHITECTS ACT 2003 - SECT 20

20 Power to refuse or impose conditions on full registration

(1) The Board may refuse to register a person who would otherwise be entitled to full registration if:

(a) the person is bankrupt, has applied to take the benefit of any law for the relief of bankrupt or insolvent debtors, has compounded with his or her creditors or made an assignment of his or her remuneration for their benefit, or

(b) the person has been convicted of an offence under Part 2, or

(c) the person has been convicted of any other offence, either in or outside the State, and the Board is of the opinion that the circumstances of the offence are such as to render the person unfit in the public interest to practise architecture, or

(d) the person’s registration, licence, accreditation or certification under an architects registration law has been cancelled or suspended because of conduct that would (if it occurred in New South Wales and the person were an architect under this Act) authorise cancellation or suspension of the person’s registration under this Act.

(2) As an alternative to refusing to register a person under subsection (1), the Board may grant the person registration subject to conditions if the Board considers that refusal of registration is not warranted and that the person should be granted registration subject to appropriate conditions.

(3) Conditions of registration may relate to the duration of registration, the aspects of the practice of architecture in which the person may be engaged, and any other matters, as the Board thinks appropriate.

Note: The Mutual Recognition Act 1992 of the Commonwealth and the Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition Act 1997 of the Commonwealth also provide for the imposition of conditions on registration. Conditions can also be imposed on a person’s registration as a result of disciplinary proceedings to which the person has been subject.

(4) In this section:
"architects registration law" means any law of a place outside the State that provides for the registration, licensing, accreditation or certification of architects.