Section 14
Section 10a of the principal Act is amended—
of Architects (Amendment) Act 2015
(a)
by substituting for the shoulder note the following shoulder note:
“Registration of foreign architects”;
(b)
by substituting for subsection (1) the following subsection:
“(1) Subject to this section and such conditions as the Board may think fit to impose, the Board may, upon payment of the prescribed fee, approve the registration as an Architect of any foreign architect who is a consultant to a project, wholly financed by a foreign government or implemented under any form of arrangement with the Government of Malaysia.”;
(c)
in subsection (2)—
(i)
by deleting the word “temporary”; and
(ii)
in paragraph (a), by substituting for the words
“the country where he normally practises” the words “his country of origin”;
(d)
by substituting for subsection (3) the following subsection:
“(3) The Board may approve the registration of a foreign architect for a period not exceeding one calendar year and may renew such registration as it deems fit.”;
(e)
in subsection (4), by deleting the word “temporary”;
(f)
in subsection (6), by deleting the word “temporary”; and
(g)
by deleting subsection (7).
Amendment of section 12