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Prescription of qualifications
Section 4 of the Architect Act gives ARB the statutory responsibility to prescribe the qualifications that are needed to become an architect. This section of the website contains the processes and procedures that schools and insitutions of architecture need to follow if they want to have the qualifications they award prescribed by ARB.

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