Section 26A
Authorization by President
of Quantity Surveyors Act 1967
(1)
Subject to subsection (2) and such policy as the Board may from time to time adopt, the President may from time to time, on payment of the prescribed fee and on such conditions or with such restrictions as he thinks fit to impose, in writing authorize any person who is not a Consultant Quantity Surveyor or Professional Quantity
Surveyor, or any firm or body corporate which is not practising as a
Consulting Quantity Surveying Practice, to do any act or thing that the person, firm or body corporate would, but for the authorization, be prohibited, or not be entitled, to do, and may at any time, without assigning any reason therefor, withdraw the authorization by notice served on the person, firm or body corporate.
(2)
No person, firm or body corporate shall be authorized under this section to do any such act or thing for more than a total period of one hundred and eighty days in any one calendar year.
(3)
A person, firm or body corporate who does any such act or thing under and in accordance with an authorization under subsection
(1)
shall, notwithstanding any provision of this Act to the contrary, be deemed to be permitted or entitled to do that act or thing as if he were a Consultant Quantity Surveyor or Professional Quantity Surveyor or it were a firm or body corporate practising as a Consulting Quantity
Surveying Practice.
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