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Architects Act 1997- continued

   
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  PART III - DISCIPLINE - continued
  Disciplinary orders - continued
  Penalty orders.
16 (1) Where a penalty order is made in relation to a registered person, he shall pay to the Board the sum specified in the order.
  (2) A penalty order may not specify a sum exceeding the amount which, at the relevant time, is the amount specified as level 4 on the standard scale of fines for summary offences
  In this subsection "the relevant time" means-
  (a) in a case within subsection (1)(a) of section 15, the time of the conduct or incompetence of which the registered person is found guilty; and
  (b) in a case within subsection (1)(b) of that section, the time when he committed the criminal offence of which he has been convicted.
  (3) A penalty order shall specify the period within which the sum specified in it is to be paid
  (4) If the person in relation to whom a penalty order is made does not pay the sum specified in the order within the period so specified, the Professional Conduct Committee may make a suspension order or an erasure order in relation to him.
  (5) The Board shall pay into the Consolidated Fund any sum paid under a penalty order
     
  Suspension orders.
17   Where a suspension order is made in relation to a registered person, the Registrar shall remove his name from the Register but shall re-enter it in the Register at the end of such period not exceeding two years as is specified in the order.
     
  Erasure orders.
18 (1) Where an erasure order is made in relation to a registered person, the Registrar shall remove his name from the Register and it shall not be re-entered in the Register unless the Board so directs.
  (2) No application shall be made for the name of a person in relation to whom an erasure order has been made to be re-entered in the Register-
  (a) before the end of the period of two years beginning with the date of the erasure order or such longer period specified in the erasure order as the Professional Conduct Committee considers appropriate in a particular case; or
  (b) where he has made a previous application for his name to be re-entered in the Register, before the end of the prescribed period beginning with the date of the decision of the Board on that application.
  (3) The Registrar shall serve on a person who applies for his name to be re-entered in the Register under this section written notice of the decision on his application within the prescribed period after the date of the decision.
  (4) The Board may require a person whose name is re-entered in the Register under this section to pay a fee of a prescribed amount.
     
  Visiting EEA architects
  Application of discipline provisions to visiting EEA architects.
19   The provisions of, and of rules under, this Act relating to disciplinary proceedings shall apply to a person who is or has been enrolled on the list of visiting EEA architects as if that person had been registered in pursuance of section 4; and references in those provisions to the Register shall be construed accordingly.
     
   
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