Western Australian Numbered Acts (1) In this Act,
unless the contrary intention appears —
“Board” means the Architects Board of
Western Australia established under section 5;
“certificate of registration” means a
certificate of registration issued under section 38;
“ committee” means a committee of the
Board appointed under Schedule 1 clause 16;
“condition” includes restriction;
"corporation" means —
(a) a
company as defined in the Corporations Act; or
(b) any
other body corporate, or body corporate of a kind, prescribed by the
regulations;
“Corporations Act” means the
Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth;
“disciplinary action” means action
that can be the subject of an order under section 57(2);
“firm” means an unincorporated body of
persons, whether consisting of natural persons or corporations or partly of
natural persons and partly of corporations;
“licence” means a licence granted
under Part 4;
“ licence document” means a licence
document issued under section 39;
“licensed” means licensed under Part
4;
“officer” , in relation to a body
corporate, has the meaning given to “officer of a corporation” in
the Corporations Act but does not include an employee of the body corporate
unless the employee is concerned in the management of the body corporate;
“public company” has the meaning given
to that term in the Corporations Act;
“register” means the register referred
to in section 43;
“registered” means registered under
Part 4;
“ registrar” means the person
appointed to be registrar under section 17;
“regulations” means regulations made
under section 71;
(a)
“architect”, “architects”, “architectural”
or “architecture”;
(b) any
abbreviation or derivative of a word in paragraph (a); or
(c) any
other word or combination of letters that sounds or looks like a word in
paragraph (a).
(2) Notes in this Act
are provided to assist understanding and do not form part of the Act.