Section 4

to keep and maintain a Register of Quantity Surveyors;

to approve or reject applications for registration or permit to practise under this Act or to approve any such application subject to such conditions or restrictions as it may deem fit to impose;

to order the issuance of a written warning or reprimand, the imposition of a fine, suspension, cancellation, removal or reinstatement in accordance with this Act;

to fix from time to time with the approval of the Minister the scale of fees to be charged by Consulting Quantity

Surveying Practice for professional advice or service rendered;

to hear and determine disputes relating to professional conduct or ethics of Consultant Quantity Surveyor,

Professional Quantity Surveyor, Provisional Quantity

Surveyor, Quantity Surveying Technologist or Consulting

Quantity Surveying Practice or to appoint a committee or arbitrator or arbitrators to hear and determine such disputes;

(ea) to act as a stakeholder in a contract for consulting quantity surveying services;

to determine and regulate the professional conduct and ethics of the Consultant Quantity Surveyor, Professional

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Quantity Surveyor, Provisional Quantity Surveyor, Quantity

Surveying Technologist and Consulting Quantity Surveying

Practice;

(fa) to hold or cause to be held professional development programmes for Consultant Quantity Surveyor, Professional

Quantity Surveyor, Provisional Quantity Surveyor or

Quantity Surveying Technologist to further enhance their knowledge in the latest developments relating to the profession;

(fb) to appoint a council comprising members of the Board,

Consultant Quantity Surveyors or Professional Quantity

Surveyors and other persons or institutions as may be determined by the Board to accredit qualifications and to conduct examination as it deems necessary;

(fc) to nominate any person to represent it on any board, committee or body if requested by an institution, body or society relating to the profession;

(fd) to nominate any members of the Board to represent the

Board on any board, committee or body in accordance with the relevant laws;

(fe) to provide scholarships and other facilities for the promotion of learning and education in connection with quantity surveying, where deemed necessary by the Board;

(ff) to authorise any person to investigate the commission of any offence under this Act or any rules made under this Act; and

generally, to do all such acts, matters and things as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.

Power of the Board to purchase or lease land, etc.