Part 5 — Practice Review and Discipline
38 Practice Review Board Practice Review Board
Review Board consisting of not fewer than 6 members as follows:
(a) registered architects who are appointed by the Council,
(a.1) at least one licensed interior designer appointed by the
Council,
(b) persons who have a combination of knowledge and
experience suitable for determining academic qualifications
and training requirements necessary for a person to continue
to engage in the practice of architecture, and who are
appointed by the Council, and
(c) one member of the public who is not a person mentioned in
clause (b) and who is nominated by the Council and
appointed by the Minister,
in accordance with the regulations to exercise the powers and
perform the duties set out in this Part.
RSA 2000
(2) If the Council fails, within a reasonable time after being
requested to do so by the Minister, to make a nomination for the
purposes of subsection (1)(c), the Minister may appoint a member
of the public to the Practice Review Board without the Council's
nomination.
(3) The Minister may pay to the member of the Board referred to
in subsection (1)(c) travelling and living expenses incurred by that
member for attendance at a hearing of the Board away from the
member's usual place of residence and fees in an amount
prescribed by the Minister.
(4) The Minister may, after consultation with the Council, revoke
the appointment of the member of the Board referred to in
subsection (1)(c).
(5) The powers, duties and operations of the Board under this Act,
the regulations and the bylaws are not affected by
(a) the fact that no member of the public is appointed as a
member of the Practice Review Board pursuant to
subsection (1)(c),
(b) the revocation under subsection (4) of the appointment of a
member of the public, or
(c) the resignation as a member of the Board of a member of th e
public.
(6) Subject to the regulations prescribing a quorum of the Board,
the failure of a member of the public appointed pursuant to
subsection (1)(c) to attend a meeting of the Board is not to be
construed to affect or restrict the Board from exercising any powers
or performing any duties under this Act, the regulations and the
bylaws at that meeting.
RSA 2000 cA-44 s38;2006 c13 s19