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Section 32

Procedure of Appeal Board

of Architects Act 1967

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Section 32

The Appeal Board shall at its discretion determine its own procedure.

Penalties, obtaining registration by false pretences, etc.

33. Any person, sole proprietorship, partnership or body corporate, as the case may be, who—

(a)

procures or attempts to procure registration or a certificate of registration under this Act by knowingly making or producing or causing to be made or produced any false or fraudulent declaration, certificate, application or representation whether in writing or otherwise;

NOTE—All proceedings under this section pending before 1 December 2002 shall be continued as if this Act had not been amended by Act A1159–see subsection 41(5) of Act A1159.

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(b)

wilfully makes or causes to be made any falsification in the

Registers specified in paragraph 4(1)(a);

(c)

forges, alters or counterfeits any certificate of registration under this Act;

(d)

utters or uses any forged, altered or counterfeited certificate of registration under this Act knowing the same to have been forged, altered or counterfeited;

(e)

impersonates an Architect, Graduate Architect, foreign architect, Building Draughtsman, Interior Designer, Graduate

Interior Designer, Inspector of Works or Architectural

Technologist;

(f)

buys or fraudulently obtains a certificate of registration under this Act issued to another Graduate Architect, foreign architect, Building Draughtsman, Interior Designer, Graduate

Interior

Designer,

Inspector of

Works,

Architectural

Technologist, architectural consultancy practice or interior design consultancy practice;

(g)

sells any certificate of registration issued under this Act; or

(h)

contravenes section 7, or subsection 15A(6) or 34B(5), shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty thousand ringgit or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both.

General penalty