Lieut.-Colonel MOOREI beg to move, in page 1, line 20, to leave out the words "The council," and to insert instead thereof the words:
For the purposes of this Act there shall be established an Architects' Registration Council of the united Kingdom (in this Act referred to as 'the council') which).On looking through the Bill when it came from the Committee we found that the council which is mentioned in Clause 3 (1) had not been properly constituted, and it was necessary in order to put the position right that an Amendment should be moved. This is really a drafting Amendment.
§ Mr. SHAKESPEAREI beg to second the Amendment.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Mr. SPEAKERThe next Amendment that I call stands in the name of the hon. Member for Walsall (Mr. McShane)—in page 2, line 11, after the word "name," to insert the word "and."
§ Mr. McSHANEOn a. point of Order. It cannot be that you are passing over the Amendment—in page 2, line 10, after the word "of," to insert the word "registered." The Bill would be entirely inaccurate if that were so. The Amendment which I desire to move, in Sub-section (3), is purely drafting. As amended, the Sub-section would read: 506
(3) It shall be the duty of the council within six months from the passing of this Act to set up and thereafter maintain a register to be called "the Register of Registered Architects."…As this is not a compulsory Measure, it would be entirely untrue and inaccurate to say that it is a register of architects. It is a register of registered architects.
§ Mr. SPEAKERThe hon. Member may move the Amendment.
§ Amendment made: In page 2, line 10, after the word "of," insert the word "registered."—[Mr. McShane.]
§ Mr. McSHANEI beg to move, in page 2, line 11, after the word "name," to insert the word "and."
This Amendment must be taken in conjunction with the further Amendment which stands in my name—in page 2, line 12, to leave out the words "and qualifications." The amended Subsection will then read:
… and to cause to be entered therein the name and address of every person entitled to be registered under this Act.The register is not supposed to be a medium of advertising for a particular architect. It is to be a test as to whether one is a registered architect or not. AU that we need in the register is the name and address. Having been born in Scotland and realising that the insertion of the qualifications would add cost to the compilation of the register, I move the Amendment.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Further Amendment made: In page 2, line 12, leave out the words "and qualifications."—[Mr. McShane.]
§ Mr. McSHANEI beg to move, in page 2, line 36, to leave out the word "twelve," and to insert instead thereof the word "twenty-seven."
I hope that this Amendment will be accepted and that we shall receive congratulations for trying to make this a decent Bill. Sub-section (4) to which this Amendment relates is not very materially important, but the 27 months that I am proposing must be read in 507 connection with the period stipulated in Clause 5 (1, c), namely:
Every person who makes application within two years of the passing of this Act.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Mr. McSHANEI beg to move, in page 3, line 11, at the end, to insert the words:
such certificate shall remain the property of the council and be surrendered by the holder to the council upon publication of the name in or upon removal of the name from the Register.Again, I am certain that I shall have the House with me in this Amendment.
§ Amendment agreed to.