Schools Of Architecture, Architects (Registration) Act, 1931

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Board of Architectural Education The Board of Architectural Education is no longer appointed. It had been a statutory body in the United Kingdom constituted under section 5 of the Architects (Registration) Act, 1931. The Act was citable with two amending Acts as the Architects ...

, the Schools of Architecture were those listed in the Second Schedule to the

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Architects (Registration) Act 1931. The 1931 Act had required the Board of Architectural Education to be appointed annually by the

Architects' Registration Council of the United Kingdom {{noref, date=December 2011 Under an Act passed by the UK Parliament in 1931, there was established an Architects' Registration Council of the United Kingdom (ARCUK), referred to in the Act as "the Council". The constitution of the Council was pres ...

(ARCUK) ("the Council"). The Board was to be constituted in accordance with the Second Schedule to the Act. This included a list of twenty Schools, from the

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to the School of

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of the

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. Changes first enacted as Part III of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 included abolition of the statutory Board of Architectural Education, and renaming the Architects' Registration Council of the United Kingdom (ARCUK) with the name it now has: the

Architects Registration Board The Architects Registration Board (ARB) is the statutory body for the registration of architects in the United Kingdom. It operates under the Architects Act 1997 as amended, a consolidating Act. It began under the Architects (Registration) Act, ...

(ARB). From 1997 this body has been governed by the Architects Act 1997, which makes no mention of the Schools of Architecture. The

Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 The Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom. Its long title shows that it is a piece of omnibus legislation: :''An Act to make provision for grants and other assistance for housing pur ...

had been passed on 24 July 1996. Its long title shows that it was a piece of departmental omnibus legislation: : ''An Act to make provision for grants and other assistance for housing purposes and about action in relation to unfit housing; to amend the law relating to construction contracts and architects; to provide grants and other assistance for regeneration and development and in connection with clearance areas; to amend the provisions relating to home energy efficiency schemes; to make provision in connection with the dissolution of urban corporations, housing action trusts and the Commission for New Towns; and for connected purposes.'' Part III of the Act relating to architects was repealed and reenacted as part of the

Architects Act 1997 The Architects Act 1997 (c. 22) is the consolidating Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the keeping and publishing of the statutory Register of Architects by the Architects Registration Board. It has the long title: ''An Act to conso ...

, which was passed on 19 March 1997 under the Parliamentary rules for consolidating Acts. Architectural education Registration of architects in the United Kingdom United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1931