Certificate of registration

(1) If the Admission Committee recommends to the Council that an applicant is fit and qualified to be registered as a professional architect, the Council shall, after receiving the prescribed registration fee from the applicant, authorise the Registrar in writing to enter the name of the applicant in the 14 (Registration) Register, and the Registrar shall as soon as possible enter the name of the applicant in the Register and furnish the applicant with a certificate of registration in the prescribed form for professional architecture. (2) Every person registered as a professional architect under this Act shall be entitled to practice professional architecture in Belize and to demand and recover reasonable charge for services rendered by him as a professional architect. (3) A certificate of registration shall expire on the 31st of December in each year.