Part 3 — Regulations and Bylaws
9 Regulations
(a) respecting the academic qua lifications of and training
requirements for applicants for registration as registered
architects and licensed interior designers;
(b) establishing conditions res pecting the registration of an
applicant referred to in clause (a), including residence, age
and character requirements;
(c) providing for the evaluation by the Registration Committee ,
the Practice Review Board, any other committee or board
established or designated under the regulations, or for the
evaluation by the Council, of the academic qualifications of
and training requirements for applicants for registration as
registered architects, visiting project architects, restricted
practitioners, licensed interior designers or visiting project
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interior designers, and the examination of those applicants
with respect to those qualifications or requirements;
(d) respecting the eligibility of applicants for registration to
engage in the practice of architecture
(i) as visiting project architects, including their relationsh ip
with registered architects who will collaborate on
projects approved by the Council, or
(ii) as restricted practitioners;
(d.1) respecting the eligibility of applicants for registration to
engage in the practice of interior design as visiting project
interior designers, including regulations respecting their
relationship with licensed interior designers who will
collaborate on projects approved by the Council;
(e) prescribing the requireme nts of eligibility of applicants to
engage in the practice of architecture as architects
corporations, including
(i) the number of full-time permanent employees or
shareholders who must be registered architects and who
will assume personal supervision, direction and control
over the practice of architecture,
(ii) the required amount of beneficial ownership of voting
shares of the applicant that must be vested in registered
architects and the number of directors or officers of the
applicant who must be registered architects, and
(iii) the persons or qualifica tions of persons who may be
beneficial owners of any of the issued shares of the
applicant or who may be employees of the applicant but
are not registered architects;
(e.1) prescribing the require ments of eligibility of applicants to
engage in the practice of interior design as interior design
corporations, including
(i) the number of full-time permanent employees or
shareholders who must be licensed interior designers and
who will assume personal supervision, direction and
control over the practice of interior design,
(ii) the required amount of beneficial ownership of voting
shares of the applicant that must be vested in licensed
interior designers and the number of directors or officers
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of the applicant who must be licensed interior designers,
and
(iii) the persons or qualifica tions of persons who may be
beneficial owners of any of the issued shares of the
applicant or who may be employees of the applicant but
are not licensed interior designers;
(f) prescribing technical sta ndards for the practice of
architecture;
(g) establishing and providing for the publishing of a code of
ethics respecting the practice of architecture, the
maintenance of the dignity and honour of the profession of
architecture and the protection of the public interest;
(h) governing the names under which authorized entities may
engage in the practice of architecture;
(i) respecting the fixing of f ees, dues and levies payable to the
Association by visiting project architects;
(j) prescribing how many members of the Council constitute a
quorum of the Council;
(k) respecting the powers, du ties and functions of the Practice
Review Board including, but not limited to, the referral of
matters by that Board to the Council or the Complaint
Review Committee and appeals from decisions of that
Board;
(l) governing, subject to this Act, the operation and
proceedings of the Registration Committee, the Complaint
Review Committee and the Practice Review Board, the
designation of chair and vice-chair, the appointment of
acting members and the procedures for filling vacancies in
the offices of chair and vice-chair and in the membership of
either Committee or the Board, the appointment of members
by virtue of their offices of either Committee or the Board
and prescribing their powers, duties and functions;
(m) respecting the procedures for hearings of the Complaint
Review Committee, of the Practice Review Board and of the
Council in matters relating to the conduct or practice of
authorized entities, whether or not a complaint has been
made;
(n) applying all or some of the provisions of this Act, the
regulations or the bylaws to members of classes or
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categories of membership in the Association established
under the bylaws;
(o) respecting reviews of the p ractice of an authorized entity by
the Board or a person authorized by the Board;
(p) respecting registration, licensing, permits and certificat es of
authorization, the review of complaints, the practice
arrangements of authorized entities, the practice of
architecture and the review of the practice of authorized
entities, generally;
(q) respecting the establishment by the Council of compulsory
continuing competence programs for registered architects,
licensed interior designers and restricted practitioners;
(r) governing the publication of a notice of the suspension or
cancellation of the registration of an authorized entity in a
form and manner prescribed by the Council;
(s) respecting committees of inquiry for reinstatements under